Tag: baedoona

Busan 2022 Review: NEXT SOHEE, Bae Doona Shines in July Jung's Memorable Slowburn

Good things come to those who wait, and so it is with Next Sohee, the blunt and powerful new film from director July Jung, which bowed at the Cannes Film Festival this spring, following eight years after her sensational debut,...

10+ Years Later: AIR DOLL Has Not Aged a Day

I saw Kore-eda Hirokazu’s Air Doll on the festival circuit during the fall of 2009, in Toronto.   Watching it again over a decade later, I realized what I had taken away from the film was not so much a...

Teaser For Korean Disaster Film TUNNEL: A Terrifying Trap

Director Kim Seong-hun (whose 2014 film A Hard Day has become part of the great pantheon of Korean crime thrillers) is back this year with a disaster film, Tunnel, and a new poster and the first teaser have been released....

Cannes 2014 Review: A GIRL AT MY DOOR Is Korean Cinema At Its Finest

Screening in the Cannes Film Festival's Un Certain Regard section this year is A Girl at My Door, a film that is so well-wrought that one can't help but be swept up in its artistry, which effortlessly plunges us into...