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
In Greek mythology, Sisyphus toiled a daily non-existence by pushing the boulder up a hill only for it to roll down to the foundations each and every time. Camus likened this to his influential ideas on absurdism; that humanity exists with purpose, even though we chase hopes and dreams in the pursuit of value and happiness. Six decades on after Camus’ work was published, his analysis of humanity still rings true, more than ever it seems, for those on all rungs of society’s harsh ladder but especially for those at the bottom. Park Jung-bum’s near flawless interpretation of those ideas burns beneath every soul-destroying frame of ‘Alive’, his near three-hour endurance of one man’s own boulder-pushing journey through Kangwon province – an unspectacular landscape littered with the daily toiling of South Korea’s more marginalised folk.
Alive is screening at London Korean Film Festival
Making ends-meat through back-breaking labour,...
Alive is screening at London Korean Film Festival
Making ends-meat through back-breaking labour,...
- 11/3/2018
- by Jamie Cansdale
- AsianMoviePulse
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