(Eojjeolsuga eobsda)
Country: KOR/FR
Technical: col/2.39:1 139m
Director: Park Chan-wook
Cast: Lee Byung-hun, Son Ye-jin, Yeom Hye-ran
Synopsis:
A paper plant junior manager is laid off by the company's American buyers and so, having assayed menial jobs to save his family home, places a recruitment advert before proceeding to eliminate the competition and bumping off the executive on whom it was based.
Review:
A remake of Costa-Gavras's Le Couperet, Park's black comedy is an uneven affair, pacy but enervating. Repellently detailed, it is likely to draw laughter from only the most hardened horror film addicts and is confusingly mounted around and inside a number of domestic spaces. It is also unconscionably long, meaning that by the time you get to the poignant Marin Marais performance by the autistic daughter to her mother, and the wry solitary confinement of the hero's newfound employment, you will probably be too exhausted to decipher the messaging.
(Eojjeolsuga eobsda)
Country: KOR/FR
Technical: col/2.39:1 139m
Director: Park Chan-wook
Cast: Lee Byung-hun, Son Ye-jin, Yeom Hye-ran
Synopsis:
A paper plant junior manager is laid off by the company's American buyers and so, having assayed menial jobs to save his family home, places a recruitment advert before proceeding to eliminate the competition and bumping off the executive on whom it was based.
Review:
A remake of Costa-Gavras's Le Couperet, Park's black comedy is an uneven affair, pacy but enervating. Repellently detailed, it is likely to draw laughter from only the most hardened horror film addicts and is confusingly mounted around and inside a number of domestic spaces. It is also unconscionably long, meaning that by the time you get to the poignant Marin Marais performance by the autistic daughter to her mother, and the wry solitary confinement of the hero's newfound employment, you will probably be too exhausted to decipher the messaging.
