Showing posts with label Chan-wook Park. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Chan-wook Park. Show all posts

Saturday, 30 November 2019

Ah-ga-ssi (2016)



A woman is hired as a handmaiden to a Japanese heiress, but secretly she is involved in a plot to defraud her.

Brilliant and beautifully staged and photographed erotic drama with a complex, but clearly told plot; every scene filled to the brim with visual artistry.


Saturday, 26 August 2017

Ssa-i-bo-geu-ji-man-gwen-chan-a (2006)


A girl who thinks she is a combat cyborg checks into a mental hospital, where she encounters other psychotics and, eventually, she falls for a man who thinks he can steal people's souls.

Tuesday, 29 November 2016

Stoker (2013)



A young woman's world comes crashing down when her father dies in a car accident, and adding to the girl's emotional turmoil is the sudden arrival of an uncle whom she never knew existed.

The plot, strongly reminiscent of Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt, doesn't spell out in full, but it has atmosphere and the director has a fine artistic eye for details and it does have a wicked twist ending.

Maltin**: "Director Park, in his English-language debut, uses his formidable skill creating a moody atmosphere to bring a sense of foreboding to this sick and pointless story...which, inevitably, is punctuated by extreme violence."