An air of sad inevitably fills the awkward silences of Scattered Night as the young Su-min (Moon Seung-ah) and her older brother Jin-ho (Choi Joon-woo) struggle to understand why their family is in the process of […]
London Korean Film Festival
In director Shim Hye-jung’s A Bedsore, a paralysed woman’s festering ulcer serves as the catalyst for her family’s gradual implosion, as husband Chang-sik (Kim Jong-gu) clashes with his self-involved children and caretaker Sook-ok (Jeon Guk-hyang) […]
Director: Hong Sang-soo London Korean Film Festival 2019 review Like a single cell repeatedly dividing and mutating to form a complex organism, the fragmentary structure of Grass suggests a work that’s continuously copying, expanding, and […]
The cinema of Kwon Hayoun is haunted by absence, standing as a ghostly echo of what’s long gone or never was. Though her short films use real-life stories and experiences as their subjects, these elegiac […]
The titular relationship of The Poet and the Boy is defined by a one-sided and stifled passion that might still serve as a preferable alternative to no passion at all. In the directorial debut of Kim Yang-hee, Yang […]
Park Kiyong (b. 1961) is a singular figure in Korean film culture: a KAFA graduate who went on to combine a filmmaking career with a key role in film teaching at KAFA itself and at […]