In 2017, 35-year-old South Korean actress Kim Min-hee won best actress at the 67th Berlin Film Festival.
The youngest Berlin actress, one of the only two international film queens in South Korea, said with a faint smile when receiving the award:
"Director, I respect you and love you."
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The Berlin Film Festival's award speech to Kim Min-hee was:
"She is an actress and an artist, and she has a keen perception and persistent pursuit of art. You can't stop looking at her. ”
As The youngest international film queen in South Korea, Koreans once called her the successor of Cannes film queen Jeon Do-yeon:
"The first ten years to see Quan DuYan, the last ten years to see Kim Min Hee."
Jin Minxi is especially special in the unique sense of performance experience she gives people, the moisturizing is silent, the "real" has to be close to life and far away from life, between the virtual and the real, there is a kind of subtlety that is just right, and there is a kind of artistry that belongs only to her.
"Watching her act, it's like watching a documentary"
She has been immersed in acting since she was a child.
Born in 1982, she is the only daughter in the family and has a father who is a stage actress.
And that gives her a good starting point.
In the fifth grade, she continued to appear on stage plays, and in high school, she took over tv commercials.
After graduating from The University of Dankook, a well-known university in South Korea, she also became an actress.
I have to say that she is a natural actor, and she also has a deep love for acting.
The ratings of the first TV series he starred in broke 40%.
In the film performance, she is also a riding dust.
In 2007, she won the Best Actress of the Busan Film Critics Association after winning the Korean Baeksang Film after "Passion like Fire";
In 2012, she won the Best Actress Award at the South Korea Busil Film Awards for "Train";
In 2014, with "The Temperature of Love", she won the Korean Baeksang Film Queen for the second time;
In 2015, with Hong Shangxiu's "Right Then It's Wrong", he won the Golden Leopard Award at the Locarno International Film Festival, one of the four major film festivals in Europe;
In 2016, with Park Chan-wook's "Miss", she won the Korean Blue Dragon Film Queen;
In 2017, he won the Golden Bear Award at the Berlin International Film Festival for "Night Alone by the Sea" directed by Hong Shangxiu.
As a filmmaker, she is famous, and as Kim Min-hee, she is very low-key.
But looking at her, there will always be a feeling of loss, she is always faint, this is what almost everyone evaluates her.
In the "documentary" "Actresses", everyone else at the dinner table is very moved, and when everyone laughs or sheds tears, she always looks very light.
The whole time it was just silent listening, quiet, with very few words, always smiling, as if participating, as if moving away.
The famous Korean director Park Chan-wook commented on Kim Min-hee as the closest actress to "cat" in South Korea.
A person forms a self-isolated and self-harmonious magnetic field, cold and distant, mysterious, quite a bit of "everyone is drunk and I wake up alone" meaning.
However, what is surprising is that when she opens her mouth, she is gentle and a little spoiled; and between her hands and feet, she is always slowly, lazily, but slowly involved some charm and purity.
Maybe that's what makes her allure.
In stark contrast to her low-key personality are her three well-known ex-boyfriends.
His first term was The Korean Film Emperor Lee Jeong-jae.
For three years, Lee Jeong-jae has been saying publicly:
"Kim Min-hee is my true destiny, and she is the one who can spend my whole life with me."
Later, Kim Min-hee took the initiative to leave Lee Jeong-jae.
This male god in the eyes of others broke up all day after the breakup, drunk and decadent
The second is the sexy male model Lee So-hyuk.
Lee Soo-hyuk, who is six years younger than Kim Min-hee, has a deep affection for her, and even if they break up two years later, he still misses her, and whenever Kim Min-hee is mentioned, he always says:
"She's a special being."
The third was the national male god Zhao Yincheng.
A year and a half later, he broke up with Kim Min-hee and was very emotional:
"I don't understand women very well, and I broke up because I didn't understand them."
It is worth mentioning that these three relationships are all in the hands of Kim Min-hee.
Including, with her husband Hong Shangxiu, who is 22 years older than her.
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Hong Sang-so was born in Seoul in 1960.
He studied in the United States, graduated from the Art Institute of Chicago with a master's degree in fine arts, and met his current wife who is also a famous school in a foreign country.
All along, Hong Shangxiu's films have been very niche, with a strong literary atmosphere and literary atmosphere.
His films are always inseparable from reality, exploring different possibilities under repetitive sets, giving people a sense of uniformity, constantly digging into life, as if there is no plot, as if there is no story, no pursuit of drama, but really unpredictable.
"Listening to the same piece of music seems to be better than reading a hundred books."
This is the charm of Hong Shangxiu's films, and later he has been nominated for three major european international film festivals many times.
The excessive concentration of artistry in the film dooms Hong Shangxiu's legacy independence and early loneliness.
And in those difficult years, his knotted wife has been silently guarding each other, bending behind her back and teaching her husband and son.
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Until 2015, Hong Sang-so met Kim Min-hee in the movie "Now Is Right Then Wrong".
Just like fate, they are particularly in tune with each other, especially tacit understanding, Kim Min-hee is Hong Sang-so's muse, and Hong Sang-so understands Kim Min-hee's charm.
Like the beginning of many couples, they fell in love.
But unlike many couples, Hong Shangxiu has a "wife of chaff" who has been with him for thirty years and a daughter who is in college.
More than a year later, the unrequited relationship was exposed, and Hong Shangxiu moved out of the house and filed for divorce from his wife.
The wife was incredulous and asked him:
"Do I have to get a divorce?"
Hong Shangxiu replied:
"If you can get a divorce, of course, it's good. We've been living together for 30 years, enough is enough, I want to live with new people now. ”
To his daughter, before leaving, he also said:
"Getting married, and then being together for the rest of your life, is the most stupid act."
However, this is not the first time for the wife.
Twenty years ago, Hong Shangxiu had told her that he had fallen in love with another woman, but soon after, he returned to the family.
She was reluctant to give up her family and firmly disagreed with divorce, even if she was sarcastically accused of being "afraid of being robbed of a long-term meal ticket by another woman."
Kim Min-hee, who is at the center of public opinion, was naturally named "Little Three" and was boycotted by all of South Korea.
The agency and numerous advertisers terminated their contracts with her, all sponsorships stopped, and she paid liquidated damages of up to hundreds of millions of won.
In this regard, she did not deny it, nor did she file a lawsuit, but directly paid liquidated damages and lost almost everything.
In order to compensate for Kim Min-hee's loss, Hong Sang-so decided not to pay his children's study abroad fees.
Families on both sides also expressed helplessness.
Kim Min-hee's mother expressed helplessness:
"My daughter was a junior, and I was more miserable than anyone else, but there was no way, it was my daughter who was carefully raised."
Hong Shangxiu also abandoned his mother with Alzheimer's disease.
Only Hong Shangxiu's wife is still insisting on a divorce lawsuit with him and resolutely not divorcing.
Hong Sang-so and Kim Min-hee probably ignored it, and they made a high-profile appearance at the Berlin Film Festival.
Kim Min-hee, who has no costume sponsorship, wears his own private clothes when he walks the red carpet, but it is still light, silent, gentle and distant.
After she got the Berlin Film Festival, the reporter asked Hong Shangxiu:
"Is there anything you want to say?"
He said:
"I just came with her."
Kim Min-hee is wearing Hong Sang-so's suit on her body, but she holds hands with others but she and Hong Sang-so have ten fingers interlocked.
So far, 7 years later, they are still together, although in 2019 Hong Shangxiu lost the divorce case with his wife.
Kim Min-hee, who has no drama to film, becomes Hong Sang-so's royal actress.
In 2020, the film "The Woman Who Escaped", directed by Hong Sang-so and starring Kim Min-hee, won Hong Sang-so the best director at the Berlin Film Festival;
This year, the film "The Novelist's Film" directed by Hong Sang-so and starring Kim Min-hee was once again shortlisted for the Berlin International Film Festival, and they may once again attend the film festival together.