Guns and Talks
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A quartet of male assassins are the most user-friendly hitmen in Seoul. They’re not really gangsters, more skilled tradesmen who meet an important social need; they’ve even been known to offer discount rates to students. None of them is in love, at least not at first, but they have a collective crush on a woman newsreader on TV. Complications begin to cloud their lives just as a police detective closes in on them, but they take on one of their biggest challenges regardless: the murder of an actor on stage during a production of Hamlet…
Guns and Talks was Jang Jin’s first mega-hit (it made top stars of all four leading men) and it firmly established his ‘brand’: smart dialogue, very offbeat humour, unpredictable characters and cleverly finessed shifts in tone. Still one of Jang’s best films.
Film details
- Country of production
- South Korea
- Year
- 2001
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2015
- Length
- 121"
- Medium/Format
- 35mm
