Uhm, err... if you like Korean flicks
Mar. 3rd, 2005 08:25 pmSometimes Blood Really Isn't Indelible
By MANOHLA DARGIS
"When the Korean director Park Chan-wook walked away with the second-most prestigious prize at the Cannes Film Festival last year, it did more than raise a few eyebrows and critical hackles. It signaled that this wasn't your father's hoity-toity snooze-fest; this was the new, improved Cannes, baby - fast and furious and genre-friendly. Mr. Park's award-winning "Oldboy," a blood-splattered revenge movie that features death by hammer and other such tasty sport, might have been an exploitation flick, but it was an arty exploitation flick."
By MANOHLA DARGIS
"When the Korean director Park Chan-wook walked away with the second-most prestigious prize at the Cannes Film Festival last year, it did more than raise a few eyebrows and critical hackles. It signaled that this wasn't your father's hoity-toity snooze-fest; this was the new, improved Cannes, baby - fast and furious and genre-friendly. Mr. Park's award-winning "Oldboy," a blood-splattered revenge movie that features death by hammer and other such tasty sport, might have been an exploitation flick, but it was an arty exploitation flick."