Here's the hope that the South-Korean director Jung-bum Park has finally found his ideal time frame with the standard 90 minutes in his third feature film “The Height of the Wave”, which brought him a Special Jury Prize in Locarno. In his so far most accomplished, slow-burning drama, Park has located the narrative in a small community on an anonymous Korean island, where the only person in charge – an ambitious, morally corrupt foreman Wonjae gets an unexpected obstacle in the form of new appointed Police Chief Yeon-su (Lee Seung-yeon) whose clear understanding of law and order turns his plans upside down.
“Height of The Wave” is available from Echelon Studios
Right at the beginning, the voice of the village foreman announces the boar hunt and warns the villagers to keep their cattle and goats at one place. His ambition to get the approval for his island as “a desirable destination” is...
“Height of The Wave” is available from Echelon Studios
Right at the beginning, the voice of the village foreman announces the boar hunt and warns the villagers to keep their cattle and goats at one place. His ambition to get the approval for his island as “a desirable destination” is...
- 3/28/2023
- by Marina D. Richter
- AsianMoviePulse
Here’s the hope that the South-Korean director Jung-bum Park has finally found his ideal time frame with the standard 90 minutes in his third feature film “The Height of the Wave”, which brought him a Special Jury Prize in Locarno. In his so far most accomplished, slow-burning drama, Park has located the narrative in a small community on an anonymous Korean island, where the only person in charge – an ambitious, morally corrupt foreman Wonjae gets an unexpected obstacle in the form of new appointed Police Chief Yeon-su (Lee Seung-yeon) whose clear understanding of law and order turns his plans upside down.
“Height of The Wave” is currently screening at the London Korean Film Festival
Right at the beginning, the voice of the village foreman announces the boar hunt and warns the villagers to keep their cattle and goats at one place. His ambition to get the approval for his island...
“Height of The Wave” is currently screening at the London Korean Film Festival
Right at the beginning, the voice of the village foreman announces the boar hunt and warns the villagers to keep their cattle and goats at one place. His ambition to get the approval for his island...
- 11/12/2019
- by Marina D. Richter
- AsianMoviePulse
"Incessantly grim and pushing the three-hour mark, indie helmer Jung-bum Park's Alive (Sanda) is about as challenging a sophomore work as anyone could have dreamt up," begins Pierce Conran at Twitch. "And this from a man who debuted with the ferociously bleak The Journals of Musan (Musanigli), a tale of a socially awkward North Korean defector unable to fit into his new surroundings, and whose sole companion, a stray dog, meets a untimely end, leaving his helpless master to fend for himself." We're collecting more reviews as they come in from Locarno and Toronto. » - David Hudson...
- 9/12/2014
- Keyframe
"Incessantly grim and pushing the three-hour mark, indie helmer Jung-bum Park's Alive (Sanda) is about as challenging a sophomore work as anyone could have dreamt up," begins Pierce Conran at Twitch. "And this from a man who debuted with the ferociously bleak The Journals of Musan (Musanigli), a tale of a socially awkward North Korean defector unable to fit into his new surroundings, and whose sole companion, a stray dog, meets a untimely end, leaving his helpless master to fend for himself." We're collecting more reviews as they come in from Locarno and Toronto. » - David Hudson...
- 9/12/2014
- Fandor: Keyframe
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