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Tag Archives: South Korean Film
On the Sand House (2023) ☆☆☆(3/4): Now she is stuck with her family business…
South Korean independent film “On the Sand House” is a modest but sensitive character drama about one deeply frustrated young woman. It is clear that she has yearned to get out of her world for restarting her life as soon … Continue reading
Archaeology of Love (2022) ☆☆☆1/2(3.5/4): Recovering from a toxic relationship
South Korean independent film “Archaeology of Love” is a haunting character drama revolving around one toxic relationship and its aftermath. As dryly but sensitively observing its ordinary heroine’s emotional struggle along the story, the movie lets us understand and empathize … Continue reading
In Water (2023) ☆1/2(1.5/4): In Blur (or Bullsh*t, perhaps)
When my late mentor/friend Roger Ebert was going to review Ingmar Bergman’s great film “Persona” (1966) not long after he became the film critic of Chicago Sun-Times, he did not know what to write first, but then he simply began … Continue reading
I Leave Home (2023) ☆☆1/2(2.5/4): An unexpected journey of two different losers
South Korean independent film “I Leave Home” is about an unexpected journey of two different losers who are utterly pathetic in each own way. They are not exactly interesting enough to draw our attention, and the movie also occasionally suffers … Continue reading
Rebound (2023) ☆☆☆(3/4): Rebounding from the bottom
South Korean film “Rebound” follows its conventional genre playbook fairly well while making some unexpected moves at times. As your average underdog sports drama incidentally inspired by a dramatic real-life story, it will not surprise you that much if you … Continue reading
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Tagged Basketball, Coach, High School, Real-life story, South Korean Film, Sports
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The Conversation (2021) ☆☆1/2(2.5/4): A series of conversations
My mind struggled to follow the rather confusing narrative flow of South Korean independent film “The Conversation”. Mainly because my condition happened to be not that good during the first viewing, I did not feel like understanding everything in the … Continue reading
The Layover (2023) ☆☆☆(3/4): Their one accidental night in Busan
South Korean independent film “The Layover” gives us three different two-handers unfolded within a limited background at one accidental night. Although it is rather plain and simple in terms of story and character, the movie is engaging mainly thanks to … Continue reading
Next Sohee (2022) ☆☆☆1/2(3.5/4): She won’t be the last one…
I got chilled and then saddened as watching South Korean film “Next Sohee”. If you are horrified and infuriated by what is so painfully presented during its first half, I guarantee you that you will be more exasperated and disgusted … Continue reading
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Tagged Detective, High School, High Schooler, Labor exploitation, South Korean Film
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Phantom (2023) ☆☆☆(3/4): Catch the Spy
South Korean film “Phantom” surprised me more than expected. At first, the movie presents itself as a taut mystery mainly unfolded within a limited background, but then it suddenly shifts itself onto a very different genre mode later in the … Continue reading
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Tagged action, Espionage, Japanese Occupation, Mystery, South Korean Film, Thriller
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The Point Men (2023) ☆☆(2/4): A hollow hostage thriller flick
It was hard for me to care that much about what was going on in South Korean film “The Point Men”, which is incidentally inspired by the true events of the 2007 South Korean hostage crisis in Afghanistan. Sure, I … Continue reading
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Tagged Diplomat, Hostage, Negotiation, Real-life incident, South Korean Film, Thriller
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