Over the weekend, Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite – already the first South Korean film to be nominated for an Oscar in any category – made Academy Award history once more by becoming the first non-English language […]
Korean films
An air of sad inevitably fills the awkward silences of Scattered Night as the young Su-min (Moon Seung-ah) and her older brother Jin-ho (Choi Joon-woo) struggle to understand why their family is in the process of […]
In director Shim Hye-jung’s A Bedsore, a paralysed woman’s festering ulcer serves as the catalyst for her family’s gradual implosion, as husband Chang-sik (Kim Jong-gu) clashes with his self-involved children and caretaker Sook-ok (Jeon Guk-hyang) […]
Director: Hong Sang-soo London Korean Film Festival 2019 review Like a single cell repeatedly dividing and mutating to form a complex organism, the fragmentary structure of Grass suggests a work that’s continuously copying, expanding, and […]
Writer-director Kim Bo-ra’s House of Hummingbird is a coming-of-age film of rare patience and clarity, imbuing the wandering existence of 14-year-old Eun-hee (Park Ji-hu) and her 1994 Seoul environment with understated mood and a vivid sense […]
Director: Kim Bo-ra London Film Festival 2019 review LFF highlight House of Hummingbird observes the understated journey of the young Eun-hee (Park Ji-hu) as she wanders through 1994 Seoul with no defined path in mind, and the […]