Country: USA
Year: 2009
Duration: 97'
lucky life Every year, four friends from New York, including the newlyweds Mark and Karen, leave the city to spend a couple of days in peace and quiet together at the seaside. But this time the relaxed atmosphere of the shared vacation has to come to terms with the news that Jason has been diagnosed with terminal cancer. They all do everything they can to make sure their relationship is stronger than the frustration generated by Jason’s illness and that the vacation becomes a serene leave-taking for them all. A while later, Karen and Mark are expecting their first child and the memory of Jason returns to the fore. “Samuel Anderson and I wrote and prepared the film during a time in which we each experienced personal tragedies. I found some shelter in reading poetry, the most important being Gerald Stern’s 1977 collection, Lucky Life, for which this film is named. Stern himself is the collector of epiphanies, a scourer of memories and everyday occurrences that others would abandon – he redeems what is lost to forgetting and leads us to the hallowed words, ‘O lucky, lucky life’.”
Biography
film director
Lee Isaac Chung
Lee Isaac Chung (Arkansas, AR, USA) studied biology at Yale, where he developed a passion for cinema, which led him to quit his scientific studies and dedicate himself to directing. He made his debut with the feature film Munyurangabo, presented at the Cannes Film Festival in 2007 in the section Un certain regard, and winner of the grand jury prize at AFI Fest. Her next movie, Lucky Life (2010), inspired by a collection of poems by Gerald Stern, participated to many festivals, including the Torino Film Festival. He founded with Samuel Anderson and Jenny Lund the New York-based production company Almond Tree Films.
FILMOGRAFIA
Munyurangabo (2007), Lucky Life (2010), Abigail Harm (2012).
Cast
& Credits
regia, montaggio, produttore/director, film editing, producer
Lee Isaac Chung
sceneggiatura/screenplay
Lee Isaac Chung, Samuel Gray Anderson
fotografia/cinematography
Jenny Lund, Koji Otsuka
scenografia/production design
Valerie Chu
musica/music
Bryan Senti
suono/sound
Greg Sextro
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters
Daniel O’Keefe (Mark), Megan McKenna (Karen), Kenyon Adams (Jason), Richard Harvell (Alex), Nancy Huse (la ceramista/Ceramic Artist), Yohei Kawamata (Yo), Stephanie Skaff (Lilian), Nancia Patterson (Cashier), Kyoko Shakagori (Kyoko)
produttori/producers
Lee Isaac Chung, Samuel Gray Anderson, Richard Lormand
produzione/production
Almond Tree Films
vendita all’estero/world sales
Umedia
