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A Midsummer’s Fantasia
In his third feature (in two parts), festival favourite Jang Kun-Jae also presents an alter ego: a Korean director who, in black-and-white, prepares aPublished on: -
My Son
A life-term prisoner is granted a 24-hour parole to see his mother and meet the son he never knew: 24 hours in which he lives…Published on: -
Righteous Ties
A surprisingly generic prison movie from Jang Jin, but laced with his usual humour and visual tricks. A gangster in jail realises that his boss…Published on: -
Made in China
A Chinese eel farmer illegally goes to South Korea to fight against its officials, who label his products contaminated and ban them. Written by Kim…Published on: -
Cart
Some female employees of a Korean hypermarket are suddenly side-lined by the management. In an environment in which the customer is always right and tPublished on: -
Woman is the Future of Men
Two men approaching middle age have nostalgic feelings about the beautiful Sunhwa, whom they once both dated. However they have very different memoriePublished on: -
Bin-jip
Unlikely romance blossoms between a battered wife and the hunky oddball who breaks into her luxurious home. Elliptical, bizarrely sweet fable of lovePublished on: -
Samaritan Girl
Two school girls discover prostitution as a lucrative source of income on the side. But of course it has to go wrong one day. The…Published on: -
Spying Cam
Two men look as if they are bored to death in a rancid, sweltering hotel room. They read Dostoevsky and film with a video camera.…Published on: -
Three… Extremes
Nail biting about human shortcomings comes surrealistically yet terrifyingly to the surface in three segments. Japanese Miike Takashi (of Audition andPublished on: