Tag: sorimoon
Udine 2018 Review: THE RUNNING ACTRESS Dashes to Victory
Ever since picking up a Best New Actor Prize from the Venice International Film Festival for Oasis in 2002, Moon So-ri has been known as one of the top performers in the Korean film industry. Now, after impressing viewers and...
Udine 2018 Review: LITTLE FOREST Will Have You Yearning for the Simple Life
In Korean cinema, when characters retreat to the countryside things generally don't work out too well for them, but in Yim Soon-rye's new drama Little Forest, a young woman regains her spirit, and as she does so, many viewers will...
Venice 2014 Review: HILL OF FREEDOM Proves A Pleasant But Slight Slice From Hong Sangsoo
It's easy to accuse Hong Sangsoo of doing the same thing over and over again as each of his films revisit the same themes with similar characters, situations and locations. Such a reading can easily miss the point of his...
Review: VENUS TALK Drowns Out Despite Strong Female Stars
As a fan of Moon So-ri and production company Myung Films, I felt that I should be excited about Venus Talk, their first collaboration since Im Sang-soo's excellent A Good Lawyer's Wife (2003). But on the other hand, with its...
Free Korean Movie Night NYC: Forever the Moment (우리 생애 최고의 순간)
On Tuesday the 22nd, the Korean Cultural Service in conjunction with Subway Cinemas will be hosting its final installment of the current series of Free Korean Movie Night featuring sports films at the Tribeca Cinemas. Like it says in...
[K-FILM REVIEWS] 날아라 펭귄 (Fly, Penguin)
It's almost a metaphor for the intents behind the long series of projects funded by the Human Rights Commission of Korea, the idea that a penguin could manage to fly despite its evident physical limitations, but the results have often...