Ha Myung-mi shot the short film “Pulley by Steven Kwang” (2016), which was invited to the 20th Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival, and became the first Korean film to be featured on the American horror channel Alter. In 2019, she established a production company, Whenever Studio, and produced the movie “Everglow” (2021). “Her Hobby” is her first feature film and is based on the homonymous mystery novel by Seo Miae.
“Her Hobby” is screening at Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival
The movie begins as Jeong-in returns to her hometown, Pak-ha village, from the city, in the middle of the night, evidently carrying some sort of trauma. She does not find solace there either though, as the locals, headed by the Village Head and the Women's Group Chief never stop pinning her down, both for her mistakes in the fields and essentially for having left the village. When another woman from the city, Hye-jung moves to the same location,...
“Her Hobby” is screening at Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival
The movie begins as Jeong-in returns to her hometown, Pak-ha village, from the city, in the middle of the night, evidently carrying some sort of trauma. She does not find solace there either though, as the locals, headed by the Village Head and the Women's Group Chief never stop pinning her down, both for her mistakes in the fields and essentially for having left the village. When another woman from the city, Hye-jung moves to the same location,...
- 7/8/2023
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
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Park Chan-wook, the world-renowned South Korean auteur best known for the floridly violent films referred to as his “Vengeance Trilogy,” wanted to tell a gentler story. It was 2019 and Park was ruminating on ideas for what would become Decision to Leave, his 11th film and first feature in six years, following a period of television work and fine art creation. He began with two competing ideas.
“Over the years, I’ve watched lots of detective dramas and police procedurals, and I love these kinds of films,” he says. “But I’ve always thought the depiction of the protagonists is quite far from reality, because they’re either really tough and violent, or some kind of genius detective.” Examples in this genre are particularly prevalent in Korea, where the highest-grossing movie just this year is Lee Sang-yong’s The Roundup (101 million and counting), a...
Park Chan-wook, the world-renowned South Korean auteur best known for the floridly violent films referred to as his “Vengeance Trilogy,” wanted to tell a gentler story. It was 2019 and Park was ruminating on ideas for what would become Decision to Leave, his 11th film and first feature in six years, following a period of television work and fine art creation. He began with two competing ideas.
“Over the years, I’ve watched lots of detective dramas and police procedurals, and I love these kinds of films,” he says. “But I’ve always thought the depiction of the protagonists is quite far from reality, because they’re either really tough and violent, or some kind of genius detective.” Examples in this genre are particularly prevalent in Korea, where the highest-grossing movie just this year is Lee Sang-yong’s The Roundup (101 million and counting), a...
- 12/13/2022
- by Patrick Brzeski
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Decision to Leave Review — Decision to Leave (2022) Film Review, a movie directed by Park Chan-wook, written by Seo-kyeong Jeong and Park Chan-wook and starring Park Hae-il, Tang Wei, Go Kyung-Pyo, Jung Yi-seo, Jeong Min Park, Seo Hyun-woo, Teo Yoo, Lee Jung-hyun, Hak-joo Lee, Kim Shin-young and Yong-woo Park. Korean filmmaker Park Chan-wook is [...]
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- 10/16/2022
- by Thomas Duffy
- Film-Book
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