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Exhausted
Uncompromising and shocking portrayal of the life of a French pimp and his wife exploited by him as a prostitute, who stay together in an…Published on: -
Suicidal Variations
Woman tries to escape death by committing suicide. By the makers of the equally uncompromising feature Exhausted.Published on: -
Love in the Shadows
Three love stories, and all three times these are rather strange loves. For instance, love with a shop window dummy. Two Korean film students made…Published on: -
Breathless
Extremely hard gangster-and-his-mol film is borne by masterful acting by the debutant director Yang Ik-June. He plays a frustrated extortionist who puPublished on: -
A Cheonggyecheon Dog
The historic Cheonggyecheon River in Seoul, for long a kind of open sewer, has been cleaned up at the cost of billions. The maker of…Published on: -
My Love, Yurie
Apparently an imaginative, colourful and fairytale film, but the theme is serious and the tone is dark in the end. The filling station attendant sellsPublished on: -
The Chaser
Characteristic Korean thriller about an ex-cop who, as a pimp, finds himself on the trail of a disturbed serial killer. With masterful pleasure in filPublished on: -
Incoherence
As a student at the KAFA, Bong Joon-Ho (The Host, Memories of Murder) made this beautiful trilogy about hypocrisy and stupidity of authorities, stillPublished on: -
The Housemaid
Is apparently in Martin Scorsese’s top 3 of all times, this Korean cinema classic. 30 years before Fatal Attraction, Kim already made the definitive fPublished on: -
Jansoree – The Unbearable Heaviness of Mama’s Nagging
Cutting film in which a mother’s love for her son is hidden by her continual griping.Published on: