The Enigma Called ‘Oppa’: There is no doubt that the Korean wave, or Hallyu, has swept over the entire world. The rapid ascent of Korea’s pop culture has affected our choices of…
Tag: Korean Cinema
The line-up for the Fantasia Film Festival 2022 is stacked and ready to roll, the event having premiered on the 14th of this month. Out of the many, many films that I’m…
Lee Seung-Won’s Three Sisters suffers from a case of thematic and stylistic overfamiliarity. Narratives around siblings who have crossed over into starkly dissimilar trajectories but are united in their filial loyalties and…
The 37 Best South Korean Movies of the 21st Century: South Korean cinema is best known for its on-screen, no-holds-barred, grotesque violence that would find space in the list of the most…
‘A black cordless phone’, ‘an intervention’, and ‘festering jealousy’ are all that it takes for everything to go irrevocably downhill in Lee Chung-Hyun’s gothic mystery thriller ‘The Call’. In this twisty genre-bending…
Lee Chang-dong recently rose to popularity among the mainstream audience after the release of his psychological thriller “Burning”, but he is not new to the festival circuits. He is a revered film-maker…