screening of ASIAN INVASION 3: KOREAN CINEMA FEAT. PARK CHAN-WOOK
Thursday, February 11, 2010
PM Phnom Penh: on Sunday, there is a screening of ASIAN INVASION 3: KOREAN CINEMA FEAT. PARK CHAN-WOOK. Many critics consider Korean cinema to be the most exciting in the world today. Jonathan Ross looks at an extremely odd movie produced by North Korean dictator Kim Jong-il who kidnapped the film's director from South Korea to make his dream project. Among the directors Ross meets Park Chan-wook, whose film “OLDBOY” (2003, 120mins) will also be screened tonight. Dae-Su is locked in a hotel room for 15 years without knowing his captor's motives. When he is finally released, Dae-Su finds himself trapped in a web of conspiracy. It's a masterpiece of pitiless power whose audacious climax strikes a note of insane romanticism as haunting as it is perverse.
