Film Review: ‘Under the Sun’

“Under the Sun” has provoked outrage from North Korean authorities and deserves our support.
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Lee Zin-mi really is a sweet little girl, but that is about the only true thing about the propaganda film she was supposed to star in. Russian filmmaker Vitaly Mansky was supposed to make it, because he would have given it international credibility. However, unlike other disgracefully compliant filmmakers allowed inside the notoriously closed state, he quickly and repeatedly clashed with his minders.

(Photo Courtesy of Icarus Films)
Photo Courtesy of Icarus Films
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