Thirst (2009)
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lsanderson
July 31, 2009
Man of the Cloth, With a Sudden Craving for Blood and Sex
By A. O. SCOTT
Published: July 31, 2009
Sang-hyun, the hero of Park Chan-wook’s “Thirst,” is many different things: a Roman Catholic priest; a selfless volunteer in a dangerous medical experiment; a reluctant faith healer with a cult following; a vampire. And “Thirst” itself, which won the Jury Prize this year at the Cannes Film Festival, where Mr. Park has long been a favorite, is equally protean. It is a bloodstained horror movie, a dark comedy, a noirish psychodrama of crime and punishment, a melodrama of mad love, a freehanded literary adaptation (of Émile Zola’s “Thérèse Raquin”) and, of course, a vampire movie. More
