They say that the secret of producing a commercially, not to mention artistically, successful parody film is to use the sillier aspects of your target genre as a source of creative inspiration to write a screenplay chock-o-block full of in-jokes, references and send-ups of the cliches.
Fortunately for us, auteur Jang Sun-woo ("Lies") was attending film school on the day they lectured on how to produce a movie that parodies the self-importance of a big-budgeted blockbuster such as "The Matrix". The only problem is that he must have fallen asleep after the first five minutes, because "Resurrection of the Little Match Girl" (2002) is an absolute debacle, so thoroughly bad that it makes for fascinating viewing.
Opening with a hilarious grainy sequence, which feels like a homage to Lars Von Trier's ("Dogville") silent film-making technique, we are informed that "This film is based on a poem", before being treated to a re-enactment of Hans Christian Anderson's "The Little Match Girl"...|
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