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Park Chan-wook's Films to Be Screened at KOFA

By Cathy Rose A. Garcia
Staff Reporter

A special retrospective of the films by award-winning director Park Chan-wook will be held at the Cinematheque, Korean Film Archive (KOFA) next month.

The retrospective is part of the Cinematheque KOFA's monthly Replay program. There will be special screenings of Park's films, starting from his directorial debut "The Moon Is... the Sun's Dream" (1992) to his latest film "Thirst". "Thirst", a film about a priest who becomes a vampire, won the Jury Prize at this year's Cannes International Film Festival.

Also to be screened are Park's so-called vengeance trilogy films, "Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance", (2002), "Oldboy", (2003) and "Sympathy for Lady Vengeance", (2005). Park won the Grand Prix at Cannes in 2004 for "Oldboy".

There will also be film screenings of "JSA - Joint Security Area" (2000), and "I'm a Cyborg, But That's OK" (2006).

Tickets are free. The Cinematheque KOFA is located in Mapo, Sangnam-dong. Visit http://www.koreafilm.org or call 02-3153-2032.

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