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FILM REVIEWS: Park Chan-wook

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Director:  Park Chan-wook

Genre: Drama

 

Smart, sexy, stylish and surprising, a period masterpiece on a con-job gone awry    

 

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Director: Park Chan-wook 

Genre: Thriller

A touching buddy movie hidden in a military thriller as an incident on the North-South border threatens to spark a war

 

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Director:  Park Chan-wook

Genre: Romantic comedy

 

Offbeat mental hospital rom-com gives Director Park an ideal palette to paint another stylish and bizarre cult classic  

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Director: Park Chan-wook

Genre: Thriller

The final Vengeance Trilogy film amplifies the stylised violence as a wrongly convicted woman hunts the true perpetrator

 

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Director: Park Chan-wook 

Genre: Crime-Romance

Park Chan-wook’s debut feature film is a soft jazz scored romantic drama with flickers of his flare but none of the thrills
 

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Director: Park Chan-wook

Genre: Thriller

Park Chan-wook’s first English-language feature is a gorgeous and mesmerising gothic tale with coming-of-age confusion  

 

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Director: Park Chan-wook

Genre: Action-Thriller

A masterpiece of stylised action and a visceral stomach-churn
of ultra-violence that leaves
you utterly breathless 

 

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Director: Park Chan-wook

Genre: Thriller

The first of the Vengeance Trilogy sees anti-heroes and villains chasing desperate paydays or bloody revenge  

 

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Director:  Park Chan-wook

Genre: Drama-Horror

Park Chan-wook's twisted vampire love story is a multi-faceted view of religion, lust
and consequence  

 

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Director: Park Chan-wook 

Genre: Drama-Comedy

Black comedy, vengeful characters and wild rushes of violence, Trio is imperfect but has signature Director Park style

 

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(1956)
THE WAILING
(2016)
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