{"id":44669,"date":"2014-07-07T08:31:35","date_gmt":"2014-07-07T12:31:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=44669"},"modified":"2014-06-25T22:33:52","modified_gmt":"2014-06-26T02:33:52","slug":"new-york-asian-film-festival-2014-the-face-reader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=44669","title":{"rendered":"New York Asian Film Festival 2014 &#8211; The Face Reader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Monday, July 7 , 2014, 5:15 PM<br \/>\nWalter Reade Theater<br \/>\n144 W 65th St, New York, NY 10023<br \/>\n<!--more--><!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/New-York-Asian-Film-Festival-2014-The-Face-Reader.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[44669]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-44670\" src=\"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/New-York-Asian-Film-Festival-2014-The-Face-Reader.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"384\" height=\"235\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>THE FACE READER<\/strong><br \/>\n\uad00\uc0c1 | HAN JAE-RIM, 2013<br \/>\nSOUTH KOREA | KOREAN WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES | FORMAT: DCP | 139 MINUTES<br \/>\nQ&amp;A with actor Lee Jung-jae.<\/p>\n<p>The Face Reader, which beat Iron Man 3 at the Korean box office last year, is a lavish period drama with high-level cast at the top of its game, juicy dialogue, and a smooth mixture of low comedy and high drama. The film spins on the contradictions between outward appearances and inner feelings in its story of a professional physiognomist, hired to weed out corrupt officials at Joseon dynasty court, who becomes entangled in a power struggle for the throne. The script cleverly weaves a fictional character into real-life events and creates a fine platform for Song Kang-ho to shine in the role of a face reader who finds himself caught up in the same kind of government machinations that originally ruined his father. But ultimately, it\u2019s Lee Jung-jae that steals the show with his superb portrayal of the king\u2019s ruthless younger brother, Su-yang. His character dominates the film\u2019s second half, as the story moves away from the original premise of a buffoon at court toward something darker. Part of Korean Actor in Focus: Lee Jung-jae. Presented with the support of Korean Cultural Service in New York.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about the event, please visit:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmlinc.com\/films\/on-sale\/the-face-reader\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.filmlinc.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monday, July 7 , 2014, 5:15 PM Walter Reade Theater 144 W 65th St, New York, NY 10023<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stay-connected-to-the-latest-local-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44669"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44672,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44669\/revisions\/44672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}