In view of the release of his new film, some titles from Park Chan-Wook’s filmography will be available in many cinemas in the main Italian cities.
Waiting for the cinema release of Decision to Leave, the latest film by Park Chan-Wook awarded for Best Director at the last Cannes Film Festival and nominated by Korea for the Oscar race for Best Foreign Language Film, a review film dedicated to the South Korean director.
The appointment in Italian cinemas has been set for the week of January 23 in Rome, Milan, Bologna, Florence, Turin, Genoa and Naples. At the end of the review, a special preview of the aforementioned Decision to Leave is also scheduled in all cinemas participating in the initiative, during which exclusive gadgets inspired by the film will be distributed. All the information will be available on the website www.luckyred.it.
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THE TITLES OF THE REVIEW
Mr. Vendetta – Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (2002), first chapter of the famous “Trilogy“, lays the foundations for a sort of physiology of revenge itself. A sensational film, Chan-wook has never hidden that he considers the vengeful act under two different aspects. On the one hand, the idea of revenge as something perversely cathartic. On the other hand, its fulfillment, which the director always outlines as something purely irrational and uncontrollable.
Old Boy (2003), presented at the Cannes Film Festival and awarded the Grand Jury Prize, immediately won over the critics and is now considered a spearhead of Korean cinema, a true cult film on the Asian scene. An original, taut film with a strong visual impact and full of twists and turns, which has captivated viewers from all over the world with its immediate and visionary power.
Thirst (2009), the director’s second film presented at Cannes, winner of the Jury Prize. Film much loved by the director, who has never made a secret of considering it one of his best. The realization of the project took a very long time, up to the completeness of the final result: one of Park’s masterpieces.
Lady Vendetta (2005), the third, shocking, film of the ‘Trilogy“. If in Mr. Vendetta the director recounted an unconscious journey towards self-destruction of the protagonists, and if in Oldboy violence was an integral and essential part of the story, in Lady Vendetta, the protagonist, rather than pursuing her own impulse to take revenge, look for a way that can guarantee her salvation.
I’m A Cyborg, But That’s Ok (2006), winner of the Alfred Bauer prize for most innovative work at the Berlin Film Festival, Chan-wook tells the viewer a colorful and wonderful fairy tale. In the images, dialogues and music of rare beauty, he manages to convey delicacy even when the narration puts us in front of scenes worthy of the worst violence.
Stoker (2013), Park’s first feature film in English, starring Nicole Kidman, Mia Wasikowska and Matthew Goode, increasingly consolidates the internationally recognized auteur. Sensual and enigmatic work, full of Hitchcockian echoes.
Mademoiselle (2016) the director’s third time in competition at Cannes. A seductive new thriller inspired by the novel “Thief” by the British writer Sarah Waters. The director’s first period film which places the story in colonial Korea and Japan in the 1930s.
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SPECIAL PREVIEW
Awarded at the Cannes Film Festival for Best Director, Decision to Leave is the new film by Park Chan-Wook, which after the Trilogy of revenge chooses the path of a refined sentimental thriller. While investigating the death of a man who mysteriously fell from the mountain, Detective Hae Jun meets the elusive Seo-rae, the victim’s young widow, who doesn’t seem to be shocked by her husband’s disappearance and who, precisely for this reason, immediately becomes the main suspect of the murder. Guilty or innocent? Melancholy and mysterious, the woman manages to arouse the detective’s interest and ignite in him a disruptive passion, which will lead him to endanger her profession.
