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RETURN TO SEOUL — Davy Chou Interview

March 10, 2023 By Leave a Comment

RETURN TO SEOUL — Davy Chou Interview

Click here to listen to the interview. Davy Chou based his film, RETURN TO SEOUL, on the real-life experiences of his friend, Korean-born Laure Badulfe. She was adopted as an infant by a French couple and, as an adult, returned to the land of her birth in order to meet her birth parents. Chou used… Read More »

Tagged With: adoption, Cambodia, closure, Khmer Rouge, Korea, language, patriarchy, Perspective, psychic wound

EMERGENCY DECLARATION (Bisang seoneon)

August 30, 2022 By Leave a Comment

EMERGENCY DECLARATION (Bisang seoneon)

EMERGNCY DECLARATION wants to take you on a hyper-roller coaster ride with an airborne tale of bio-terrorism, and it does. A worthy throwback to the disaster films of a generation or so ago, it is the perfect action film for the age of COVID, and a thrill-packed time that will wring every emotion out of… Read More »

Tagged With: bioterrorism, father-daughter, hijacking, Korea, terrorism, virus

THE HANDMAIDEN (Ah-ga-ss)

November 1, 2016 By 1 Comment

THE HANDMAIDEN (Ah-ga-ss)

Based on Sarah Water’s novel Fingersmith, Chan-Wook Park’s THE HANDMAIDEN hornswaggles its audience with its opening scenes, and then continues on for its running time to continually confound, shock, and gratify that same audience. Told in four separate chapters that each covers roughly the same action, reality becomes a series of preconceived notions that are… Read More »

Tagged With: book to screen, Fingersmith, Japanese occupation of Korea, Korea, mystery, Sarah Waters

TRAIN TO BUSAN (Busanhaeng)

September 25, 2016 By Leave a Comment

TRAIN TO BUSAN (Busanhaeng)

New zombies, new rules. If TRAIN TO BUSAN did nothing but find a new take on zombies, it would be worth your time, but this Korean gem goes the extra yardage to gift us with an engrossing story that contains only a soupçon of well-regulated sappy sentiment.  It’s far more interested in observing what happens… Read More »

Tagged With: divorce, father-daughter, horror, Korea, pregnancy, Seoul, thriller, train, zombie

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