Hansel & Gretel screenings for Canada!
Alright. We've got screening dates for the Korean horror Hansel & Gretel, released theatrically by Evokative Films, based out of Montreal.
Evokative Films is very pleased to announce the theatrical release of the South-Korean dark fantasy HANSEL & GRETEL. The film will be screening from March 6th, for a two-weeks run, at the AMC Forum theatre in Montreal, with a Korean with English subtitles copy. HANSEL & GRETEL will then go on to play in Toronto from March 27th and Vancouver from April 17th.
When Eun-soo crashes his car on a country road, he meets a young girl who leads him to her beautiful house in the middle of the forest, where he is welcomed by her parents and two young siblings, who appear to be the picture of the perfect family. The morning after, when he tries to get back to his car, the forest seems never-ending and inevitably leads back to the house. Soon Eun-soo realizes he's trapped in the kids' gloomy fairy-tale alternate reality, a world no other adult has managed to escape alive before him.
Yes! And thank you very much for not wussing out and getting a dubbed version. Merci Beaucoup Evokative!
HANSEL & GRETEL at the AMC Forum theatre in Montreal from March 6th
Montreal, Thursday February 19th, 2009 Evokative Films is very pleased to announce the theatrical release of the South-Korean dark fantasy HANSEL & GRETEL. The film will be screening from March 6th, for a two-weeks run, at the AMC Forum theatre in Montreal, with a Korean with English subtitles copy. HANSEL & GRETEL will then go on to play in Toronto from March 27th and Vancouver from April 17th.
Written and directed by YIM Phil-Sung (ANTARTIC JOURNAL), the films starts CHEON Jeong-myeong and the young actors SIM Eun-kyung, JANG Yeong-Nam and JIN Ji-hee. A stellar crew contributed to the films, including Production Designer RYU Seong-hie (THE HOST, A BITTERSWEET LIFE, OLDBOY, MEMORIES OF MURDER), Cinematographer KIM Ji-yong (A BITTERSWEET LIFE) and Composer LEE Byung-woo (THE HOST, A TALE OF TWO SISTERS).
When Eun-soo crashes his car on a country road, he meets a young girl who leads him to her beautiful house in the middle of the forest, where he is welcomed by her parents and two young siblings, who appear to be the picture of the perfect family. The morning after, when he tries to get back to his car, the forest seems never-ending and inevitably leads back to the house. Soon Eun-soo realizes he's trapped in the kids' gloomy fairy-tale alternate reality, a world no other adult has managed to escape alive before him.
HANSEL & GRETEL got attention on the International film festival circuit after being part of the official selections of the Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival (Pifan), the Sitges International Film Festival and the London Film Festival in 2008, followed by the Gerardmer Fantastic Film Festival and the Fantasporto International Film Festival this year. In Canada HANSEL & GRETEL had the honour of being chosen as the Closing Film of the Dragons and Tigers section at the Vancouver International Film Festival, to then follow with the Toronto Reel Asian Film Festival.
