Superbly choreographed, perfectly realised action/fight sequences ultimately cannot hide A Company Man’s narrative predictability and though director Lim Sang-yoon should indeed for credited for attempting a critique of company hierarchy, work ethics and expected loyalty, this dissection feels somewhat underwhelming. [Read More]
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The Harmonium In My Memory (내 마음의 풍금, 1999) review: first love, music and long summers
Set in 1960s rural Korea, this coming-of-age romance explores a tender love triangle between a young teacher, his colleague and a schoolgirl discovering first love through her journal. At the same time sad, funny, moving and uplifting, The Harmonium In My Memory is what everyone’s first love should be. [Read More]
Addicted (중독, 2002) review: love, identity and the aftermath of loss
After a tragic accident leaves one brother brain-dead and the other profoundly changed, Addicted explores whether love can survive death, doubt and fractured identity. Each of the characters becomes an unwilling victim of the love that they choose and each has to question whether to pay the high price which that love requires. [Read More]