I was particularly looking forward to the Korean screenings in the London Film Festival this year. Both LEAFF and LKFF in prior years have been championing the talent among Korea’s female directors and the trend has now spread to the BFI programme: of this year’s BFI festival, four out of the five Korean movies were … [Read More]
Director: Kang Hyo-jin
Korean Films at the 2019 BFI London Film Festival
Tickets for this year’s London Film Festival go on sale on 12 September, or earlier if you’re a BFI member. Five Korean movies this year, four of which are by female directors. I’m looking forward to all of them. A piece of trivia: this is the second year in a row that there hasn’t been … [Read More]
Film Review: Wonderful Nightmare
Owing to an administrative cock-up at the Pearly Gates, rich, single, hard-nosed, man-hating lawyer Lee Yeon-woo, whose main client is an evil construction company, meets an early death. She is given a chance to resume her life, but only on condition that she first, for one month only, lives the life of a mother-of-two married … [Read More]
Korean film – a review of 2007
Jason Bechervaise, founder of koreanfilm.org.uk, gives his perspective on the ups and downs of the Korean film industry in 2007 By all accounts 2007 was a year that has been difficult one for the Korean film industry where it seems that the golden years of the Korean film industry has passed. Rising costs have meant … [Read More]