A man casually sets up for a fishing trip at the water’s edge. Evening comes and a tug on his line presents him with the body of a woman.
This is what a great director can do with an iPhone. A pure audiovisual art with a meaning.
A stranger arrives in a little village and soon after a mysterious sickness starts spreading. A policeman is drawn into the incident and is forced to solve the mystery in order to save his daughter.
An entertaining, clever and unseen mix of genres that goes straight to the top of my collection. How well the movie shifts from comedy to horror and then to drama…
1930s Korea, in the period of Japanese occupation, a young woman is hired as a handmaiden to a Japanese heiress who lives a secluded life on a large countryside estate with her domineering uncle. But, the maid has a secret: she is a pickpocket recruited by a swindler posing as a Japanese count to help him seduce the heiress to elope with him, rob her of her fortune, and lock her up in a madhouse. […]
A strong movie from one of my favorite directors. As of this post, it’s the latest movie of Park Chan-wook, but I’d say it’s a good introduction if you’re new…