헨젤과 그레텔 (Hansel and Gretel) Coming to Canada!

Wonderful news for our friends in Canada. Evokative Films has just announced they will bring Im Pil-Sung's stunning sophomore effort 헨젤과 그레텔 (Hansel and Gretel) to Canada, with a limited theater run followed by home video releases. The new company, which is strongly focusing on genre cinema and will also release Miki Satoshi's 轉轉 (Adrift in Tokyo) and Cédric Anger's Le Tueur (The Killer), recently signed a distribution contract with Finecut, which is becoming an increasingly bigger player in the international sales market. Film had a pretty healthy festival run (Cannes, Puchon) after its somewhat disappointing domestic theater run, and was selected as the closing film of the Dragons and Tigers section of the Vancouver International Film Festival (director Im will be present at the screening).

Film is one of the best Korean works of the last 18 months, oozing with creativity and ingenious visuals, and tremendous acting from child stars Shim Eun-Kyung and Jin Ji-Hee.