South Korea
The absence of parental guidance through the strategic use of antithesis allows Extracurricular to hold its characters accountable for their mistakes.
We investigate how South Korean director Bong Joon-ho conquer the barrier of spoken language through cinematic language.
With his newfound Oscar glory, Bong Joon-ho’s earlier filmography is ripe for rediscovery, and a beginner’s guide to his career all the more relevant.
Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite made history by winning both the Oscars for Best Picture and Best International Feature Film. But why exactly is this such a big deal?
In years past, I recommended great horror movies from around the world. Find part one…
Not all conversations are deep, some of them are about trivial everyday things. But in Grass, every conversation is an intricate miniature story.
Ever since its Palme d’Or winning debut at Cannes, Parasite has been accumulating buzz like…
Bong Joon-ho has put together an intricate, multi-layered portrait of inequality and class. At the same time, he keeps the experience fun and intoxicating.
While it’s true that film as a medium is intrinsically subjective, it seems pretty clear amongst viewers with knowledge of film that Parasite will go down as a classic.
Yes, it’s a dark crime drama – but The Gangster, The Cop, The Devil is more mainstream friendly than most South Korean thrillers.
The tension between musical and war drama at times overwhelms the picture – but god, even when it’s a failure, Swing Kids is entertaining as hell.
Lee Chang-dong’s masterful Burning is a pot of luscious ambiguity that has us pining for answers.
In this Beginner’s Guide we dive into the works of South Korean director Park Chan-wook, who is best known for his excessive and notorious use of extreme violence.
While lacking the effervescence of his previous film Claire’s Camera, Sang-soo Hang’s The Day After has a mournful cloud that hangs over this digital monochrome display of admirable honesty.
Watching Claire’s Camera feels like watching a film being made right in front of you with director Hong laying bare his cinematic style in that he doesn’t know where he’s taking us, but he’s just as interested to find out.