Last week, the organisers of this year’s Busan International Film Festival decided to announce that they were cracking down on ‘overexposed’ actresses, telling the Korea Times:
“We’ve decided to switch the atmosphere in order to shift the spotlight to the directors, actors and actresses instead of some female…
In most Korean dramas, mothers are characters in the background, appearing in the foreground only to cause a plot to move forward. Although, depending on the format and genre of the drama, there are also a handful of examples in which mothers play the main role in the foreground; one…
At first glance Night Flight gives off a soap opera feel with its subdued colouring and generally soft palette, yet stick with this film and allow yourself to be pleasantly surprised as its many intricate layers soon weave elegantly throughout the film. Despite the soft outer shell, Night Flight harvests…
Director Lee Su-jin brings us his first independent feature debut: Han Gong-ju. We follow Gong-ju (Chun Woo-hee) who is, in theory, your typical teenager; she goes to school, has a part time job and she loves music above all. Well, Gong-ju would be your typical…
After the success of his first feature film, Daytime Drinking, the promising director Noh Young-seok brings us Intruders.
Intruders shares many of the same themes as Daytime Drinking. Writer and director Noh Young-seok is fascinated in human encounters, he primarily loves to put his main lead in situations…
When looking at the cast of Snowpiercer, which includes Chris Evans, Tilda Swinton, John Hurt, Kang-ho Song and Ed Harris, you can’t help but wonder why such a film is only now being premièred in the UK or why Snowpiercer hasn’t had a UK cinema release…
Korean dramas are a fantasy space. They don’t show the world we live in but the world we wish we could access. The underdog conquers all obstacles; the painfully average person achieves greatness. Love is always true and good always wins. The poor gain opulent wealth without surrendering their…
