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Review: Failan (Song Hae-sung, 2001)
Posted on January 26, 2012 | No CommentsKang-jae is low-level gangster, a hoodlum who receives no respect from the gang that he runs with, he is seen as no more than a washed up and gutless slob . Following his release from a ten day jail sentence – for selling porno videotapes to teenagers – Kang-jae tries... -
KOFFIA 2011: The Films… Part 2
Posted on August 14, 2011 | No CommentsContinuing our coverage of this years Korean film Festival In Australia (KOFFIA) here’s Part 2 of our overview of the films screening - check out our introduction to this years KOFFIA festival here and Part 1 of the films overview here… Bedevilled (Jang Chul-soo / 2010) It’s safe to say... -
Review: Treeless Mountain (Kim So-yong, 2008)
Posted on July 20, 2011 | 1 CommentAn elementary school in Seoul, the present. Six-year-old Jin spends her penultimate day at elementary school learning about time and playing with friends. Later that evening, she is chastised by her mother for failing to take Bin, her four–year-old sister, off the neighbours’ hands when she was supposed to. While... -
Review: Forever With You (Yoo Hyeon-mok, 1958)
Posted on June 26, 2011 | No CommentsThe night before he is released from prison Gwang-pil tells a fellow inmate the story behind his ten year incarceration. As a young boy Gwang-pil ran the streets with his friends Dal-soo and Sang-moon, picking pockets and stealing to make their money. During a failed attempt to rob a warehouse... -
Review: Breath (Kim Ki-duk, 2007)
Posted on May 25, 2011 | No CommentsThe 14th feature from Kim Ki-duk, better known in the West for his “extreme” psycho-sexual dramas, The Isle (2000) and Bad Guy (2002) is a remarkably restrained affair. The story centres on a love triangle between a disaffected housewife Yeon (Park Zi-a), her adulterous husband (Ha Jung-woo) and a death... -
Review: The Uninvited (Lee Su-yeon, 2003)
Posted on February 28, 2011 | 2 CommentsUijeongbu, the present. Interior decorator Kang Jung-won begins the long journey home on the Seoul subway. As he sleeps, a single mother and her two daughters board, seating themselves nearby. At the last stop, he wakes to find the girls are dead and their mother missing, but in his panic... -
Review: Poetry (Lee Chang-dong, 2010)
Posted on February 27, 2011 | 1 CommentAn old woman suffering from Alzheimer’s discovers that her grandson might be involved in the suicide of a young girl. Review Here is a typical reaction to Poetry, a typical misty-eyed reaction drenched in kitsch, and it is ironic that it comes from Manohla Dargis who happens to be a... -
Review: Missing (Kim Sung-hong, 2009)
Posted on January 12, 2011 | 2 CommentsHyun-ah travels with a film director into the countryside to discuss a potential film role. Taking a break at a farm for some fresh chicken soup, the strange owner of the farm suddenly attacks the director and knocks Hyun-ah unconscious – when she awakes to find herself held hostage she... -
Review: Kiss Me, Kill Me (Yang Jong-hyun, 2009)
Posted on October 31, 2010 | 1 CommentHitman Hyun Jun senses something is not quite right while on a job, only to find that his target is a young woman by the name of Jin young who has paid for her own murder. Sparing her life, but angering and frustrating her in the process, Hyun Jun walks... -
Review: The Sword With No Name (Kim Yong-gyun 2009)
Posted on August 31, 2010 | No CommentsJa Yeong takes a trip to the coast to see the sea before leaving to be married. She meets Moo Myeong, a rough, low class bodyguard who immediately falls in love with her. When Moo Myeong finds out that the person Ja Yeong is to marry is the King himself...