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[HanCinema's Film Review] "Bedevilled"
2011/09/17, Source,
Subtlety is a foreign concept to "Bedevilled", dealing more with superlative than finesse. Not to say that's entirely a shame - in fact, it's more strategic than anything else. The audience is manipulated upon entering the cinema, expecting a revenge thriller or typical horror and instead being emotionally thrashed by confronting horror and cruelty that doesn't at all follow the entertaining hack and slash disposable violence and cathartic resolution of the horror genre.
Our main character, Hae Won, is a morally obtuse city slicker whose pathos indirectly hurts those around her, whether it be refusing to help a woman being beaten or putting clerical procedure over a person's livelihood. That same lethargy deals its damage to her childhood friend, Kim Bok-Nam, when she visits the island of her upbringing,...More
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"Amen", KIM Ki-duk's Latest Film, is Off to Competition at San Sebastian
2011/08/22, Source,
by KOFIC Staff
Kim Ki-duk is returning with a new narrative film in three years. Two Korean films have been officially invited to the 59th San Sebastian International Film Festival, the largest film festival in Spanish-language regions. KIM's "Amen" (2011), his first narrative feature production in three years. has been invited to the festival's Competitive Official Selection, while Lim Woo-seong's "Scars" (2011) is competing at festival's Zabaltegi-New Directors Section,...More
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Kim Ki-duk Wins Best Picture in Un Certain Regard at Cannes
2011/05/23, Source,
Director Kim Ki-duk poses during a photocall of Director Kim Ki-duk poses during a photoca,...More
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Cannes hears out filmmaker's angst
2011/05/22, Source,
Kim Ki-duk's feet in a scene from "ARIRANG - Movie", a documentary-style drama that won best picture in the Un Certain Regard section at Cannes, Saturday
Kim Ki-duk wins sidebar competition with torn self-portrait
By Lee Hyo-won
Kim Ki-duk's controversial self-portrait shared the best picture award with a German drama at the Cannes Festival's sidebar competition, Saturday,...More
