Tag Archives: Chan-wook Park

beautiful, bold, captivating (film: The Handmaiden / Ah-ga-ssi – Chan-wook Park, 2016)

Posted on June 26, 2020 by admin

A beautiful, perverse, absorbing film. I have noticed on other occasions that many of the Korean films refuse easy categorizations. This is also the case of ‘The Handmaiden‘, the film made in 2016 by Chan-wook Park. It is a mature … Continue reading →

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horror is not lost in translation (Film: Stoker – Chan-wook Park, 2013)

Posted on September 26, 2013 by admin

I read that director Chan-wook Park decided to go into movies after seeing Hitchcock’s Vertigo. He grew up into becoming one of the most successful directors of horror movies in the Korean school of cinema and he now pays back … Continue reading →

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