With a history as rich and vast as the peninsula of Korea’s, it is no surprise that films based on the lives of revered national figures are made in South Korea in plenty. It is, however, baffling that no film that focused specifically on the very eventful life of activist, freedom fighter and the last Premier of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea, Kim Koo, had been made so far. He is finally given his just dues in Lee Won-tae’s biopic “Man of Will”, starring Cho Jin-woong and Song Seung-heon, which focuses on his early days when he was still called Kim Chang-soo.
The film starts with the fight that would change the course of Kim Chang-soo’s life, where he ends up killing a Japanese man. As it turns out, Kim Chang-soo killed the man because he suspects him of having assassinated the beloved Empress Myeongseong,...
The film starts with the fight that would change the course of Kim Chang-soo’s life, where he ends up killing a Japanese man. As it turns out, Kim Chang-soo killed the man because he suspects him of having assassinated the beloved Empress Myeongseong,...
- 9/7/2018
- by Rhythm Zaveri
- AsianMoviePulse
When an isolated forest ranger rescues a mysterious young woman he finds beaten and unconscious, his long-suppressed emotions surge out of control in Romanian multi-hyphenate Florin Şerban’s third feature “Love 1. Dog.” Set in some indeterminate time during the 20th century, this enigmatic but engrossing drama may look completely different from Şerban’s 2010 Berlinale prize-winner, “If I Want to Whistle, I Whistle,” or his 2015 sophomore outing, “Box,” but like these films, “Love 1” has at its core a battle of wills between a male and a female. Further festival travel is likely, with potential longer shelf life as the first of an announced trilogy.
Middle-aged Simion lives rough in a remote cabin built by his grandfather, high on a pine-forested mountain. His only companions are a fierce shepherd-mix dog that he has never bothered to name and a donkey to haul fuel for his fire. As he patrols the woods with his rifle,...
Middle-aged Simion lives rough in a remote cabin built by his grandfather, high on a pine-forested mountain. His only companions are a fierce shepherd-mix dog that he has never bothered to name and a donkey to haul fuel for his fire. As he patrols the woods with his rifle,...
- 8/18/2018
- by Alissa Simon
- Variety Film + TV
Italian director and actress Asia Argento has fired back after French filmmaker Catherine Breillat gave a scathing interview on the podcast Murmur defending disgraced film mogul Harvey Weinstein and criticizing the #MeToo and French #BalanceTonPorc ("Denounce your pig") movements, as well as personally attacking Weinstein victims, including Argento.
Argento responded to the helmer of Fat Girl and Bluebeard, calling her out for her collaboration with David Hamilton, the late British fashion photographer who was accused by multiple women of raping them when they were prepubescents. French TV host Flavie Flament in 2016 accused Hamilton of raping her when she was just 13 and he...
Argento responded to the helmer of Fat Girl and Bluebeard, calling her out for her collaboration with David Hamilton, the late British fashion photographer who was accused by multiple women of raping them when they were prepubescents. French TV host Flavie Flament in 2016 accused Hamilton of raping her when she was just 13 and he...
- 3/31/2018
- by Ariston Anderson
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Actress Asia Argento, one of the many women to call out Harvey Weinstein for alleged sexual harassment, has hit back hard at some stinging words from French director Catherine Breillat, with whom she collaborated on 2007 drama The Last Mistress.
After the Fat Girl and Bluebeard filmmaker called Argento a “traitor” and a “mercenary” and accused her of “semi-prostitution” during a stunningly frank recent podcast appearance, the xXx star this morning roared back with some choice words of her own calling the auteur filmmaker “the most sadistic and downright evil director I’ve ever worked with.”
During the explosive appearance on the Murmur podcast, which seems to have been taken down this morning but was caught yesterday by Indiewire, Breillat discussed a range of topics from Weinstein (whose downfall she said was a “loss” for European cinema) to #MeToo (which she’s “not for”), Jessica Chastain (who never should have criticized...
After the Fat Girl and Bluebeard filmmaker called Argento a “traitor” and a “mercenary” and accused her of “semi-prostitution” during a stunningly frank recent podcast appearance, the xXx star this morning roared back with some choice words of her own calling the auteur filmmaker “the most sadistic and downright evil director I’ve ever worked with.”
During the explosive appearance on the Murmur podcast, which seems to have been taken down this morning but was caught yesterday by Indiewire, Breillat discussed a range of topics from Weinstein (whose downfall she said was a “loss” for European cinema) to #MeToo (which she’s “not for”), Jessica Chastain (who never should have criticized...
- 3/30/2018
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Update, March 30: The Murmur Podcast has since pulled the episode featuring Breillat.
Like several other luminaries of French cinema, Catherine Breillat has a complicated, even negative view of the #MeToo movement. The “Fat Girl,” “Abuse of Weakness,” and “Bluebeard” filmmaker recently appeared on the Murmur podcast to discuss everything from Harvey Weinstein (whose downfall is a “loss” for European cinema) and Asia Argento (“a mercenary and a traitor”) to #MeToo (which she’s “not for”) and Jessica Chastain (who never should have criticized “Last Tango in Paris”). It’s a compelling, increasingly out-there listen.
“Despite everything, I think that Europeans have lost a lot with the loss of Harvey Weinstein,” Breillat says of the disgraced former mogul. “You have to remember that there are French producers who we haven’t denounced — I won’t mention them; I won’t mention names, although I know three who are extremely respected...
Like several other luminaries of French cinema, Catherine Breillat has a complicated, even negative view of the #MeToo movement. The “Fat Girl,” “Abuse of Weakness,” and “Bluebeard” filmmaker recently appeared on the Murmur podcast to discuss everything from Harvey Weinstein (whose downfall is a “loss” for European cinema) and Asia Argento (“a mercenary and a traitor”) to #MeToo (which she’s “not for”) and Jessica Chastain (who never should have criticized “Last Tango in Paris”). It’s a compelling, increasingly out-there listen.
“Despite everything, I think that Europeans have lost a lot with the loss of Harvey Weinstein,” Breillat says of the disgraced former mogul. “You have to remember that there are French producers who we haven’t denounced — I won’t mention them; I won’t mention names, although I know three who are extremely respected...
- 3/29/2018
- by Michael Nordine
- Indiewire
Much like her debut The Uninvited, Lee Soo-yeon's latest film Bluebeard teases a dark genre storyline before turning off into more psychological territory through several layered images and a protagonist who isn't quite what he seems, played by Cho Jin-woong of A Hard Day. Unlike her impressive 2003 horror film, her second work feels less fresh and a lot more contrived. Seung-hoon is a doctor whose failed Seoul practice has forced him to move to a small town on the outskirts of the city, where he now lives in a cramped apartment above a butcher shop. Recently divorced, Seung-hoon only gets to see his son once every two weeks. He begins to work at a clinic in town and one day, while performing a colonoscopy,...
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- 10/16/2017
- Screen Anarchy
Bluebeard, the sophomore effort from Writer/Director Lee Soo-youn (The Uninvited), debuts on digital and Blu-ray Combo Pack August 15 from Well Go USA Entertainment. A psychological thriller in the vein of Alfred Hitchcock, the film stars Cho Jin-woong (The Handmaiden), Kim Dae-myung (Inside Men) and Shin Gu (No Blood No Tears). In Bluebeard, Dr. Seung-hoon (Cho) sedates his landlord before a medical check-up and the old man begins telling him a convincing murder confession.
When a doctor learns a murderous secret from a sedated patient, he finds himself in the middle of an unsolved serial murder case. As dismembered bodies start showing up close to home, the doctor realizes he must solve the riddle before the killer realizes what he may know.
Bluebeard has a runtime of approximately 117 minutes and is not rated.
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When a doctor learns a murderous secret from a sedated patient, he finds himself in the middle of an unsolved serial murder case. As dismembered bodies start showing up close to home, the doctor realizes he must solve the riddle before the killer realizes what he may know.
Bluebeard has a runtime of approximately 117 minutes and is not rated.
The post Bluebeard Debuts on Digital & Blu-ray Combo Pack August 15th appeared first on We Are Movie Geeks.
- 8/14/2017
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Well Go USA Entertainment has announced that they will be releasing the Korean psychological thriller Bluebeard on August 15 in both digital and Blu-ray combo formats. The film comes from writer/director Lee Soo-youn (The Uninvited) and stars Cho Jin-woong (The… Continue Reading →
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- 7/19/2017
- by Jonathan Barkan
- DreadCentral.com
Crime thrillers are the genre Korean cinema has built its reputation upon, with a plethora of true masterpieces. Lee Soo-yeon attempts this, overvisited category, through an elaborate case and a mixture of genres.
Seung-hoon is a gastroenterologist, whose private clinic has recently closed leaving him on debt, in a series of events that has led him to a divorce from his wife and a job doing colonoscopies in another private clinic. His financial situation is even worst though, since he has to pay alimony for his son, which has led him to sell his car and having to commute each day to his work, and to live in a tiny and cramped with books apartment over a butcher shop, owned by Sung-geun. His only escape from his miserable life is crime fiction novels, which have become something of an obsession, to the point that he considers every detail in his...
Seung-hoon is a gastroenterologist, whose private clinic has recently closed leaving him on debt, in a series of events that has led him to a divorce from his wife and a job doing colonoscopies in another private clinic. His financial situation is even worst though, since he has to pay alimony for his son, which has led him to sell his car and having to commute each day to his work, and to live in a tiny and cramped with books apartment over a butcher shop, owned by Sung-geun. His only escape from his miserable life is crime fiction novels, which have become something of an obsession, to the point that he considers every detail in his...
- 7/4/2017
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
The London Korean Film Festival (Lkff) continues the countdown to its 12th edition, scheduled for autumn 2017, with the UK premiere of Lee Soo-youn’s psychological thriller Bluebeard on the 10th of July.
Cho Jin-woong in Bluebeard (Source: London Korean Film Festival)
Bluebeard upholds the rich tradition of gripping thrillers from Korean cinema, while offering a new perspective on narratives featuring psychopaths, with a progressively unreliable narrator.
Trailer
The film features Cho Jin-woong as the neurotic doctor Seung-hoon, who suspects that his patient (Shin Goo) and the patient’s son (Kim Dae-myung), living downstairs in a butcher shop, are involved in a string of unsolved murders in the city. A trail of gruesome hints keeps the truth just out of reach as the director uses the claustrophobic environs of the city and the increasing paranoia of the doctor to crank up the tension, reaching a shocking finale.
Cho Jin-woong and Kim...
Cho Jin-woong in Bluebeard (Source: London Korean Film Festival)
Bluebeard upholds the rich tradition of gripping thrillers from Korean cinema, while offering a new perspective on narratives featuring psychopaths, with a progressively unreliable narrator.
Trailer
The film features Cho Jin-woong as the neurotic doctor Seung-hoon, who suspects that his patient (Shin Goo) and the patient’s son (Kim Dae-myung), living downstairs in a butcher shop, are involved in a string of unsolved murders in the city. A trail of gruesome hints keeps the truth just out of reach as the director uses the claustrophobic environs of the city and the increasing paranoia of the doctor to crank up the tension, reaching a shocking finale.
Cho Jin-woong and Kim...
- 6/20/2017
- by Arnav Sinha
- AsianMoviePulse
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