Old Boy director has a new film out & live q&a

[amir_j]

Just got a email through- http://www.curzoncinemas.com/whats_on/all_times/cu...

won't be able to make it to the q&a but can't wait to see it!

[Mr Heathen]

Brilliant! Cheers for the heads-up... Old Boy is just about the best film I've seen in the last few years.

[sstein]

OldBoy is part of a pseudo-trilogy.

Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance
OldBoy
Lady Vengeance.

Lady Vengeance was, financially, the most successful of the 3.

I have the other 2 on DVD but haven't got round to watching them yet.

Edited by sstein on Wednesday 30th September 20:33

[JustinP1]

Park is one of my favourite directors and really got me into far eastern film.

Sympathy for Mr Vengence is very clever in a Pulp Fiction type way, and the concept and twists of Oldboy are of course superb.

Lady Vengence really finishes off the trilogy well.

It is so refreshing after Hollywood cinema to NOT have a hero, but merely a protagonist who is flawed and human.

I would also check out his earlier J.S.A as well about the DMZ in Korea. Great film.

[Mr Heathen]

sstein said:

OldBoy is part of a pseudo-trilogy.

Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance
OldBoy
Lady Vengeance.

Lady Vengeance was, financially, the most successful of the 3.

I have the other 2 on DVD but haven't got round to watching them yet.

Edited by sstein on Wednesday 30th September 20:33

I thought that Sympathy for Mr Vengeance was excellent, but I didn't enjoy Lady Vengeance as much as the other two. Perhaps it was because I had an idea of Chan-Wook's style by this point & I didn't find it quite as surprising...