The London Korean Film Festival (Lkff) continues its countdown to the main festival in October with the European Premiere of one of the year’s most anticipated Korean films, Jang Hoon’s A Taxi Driver. As part of the teaser screenings for the 2017 edition, the film will be shown at Picturehouse Central on Monday, August 14, less than two weeks after its international release. A follow-up screening is scheduled for Arts Picturehouse Cambridge on Monday, August 21.
Song Kang-ho in A Taxi Driver (2017) (Source: Lkff 2017)
Starring Song Kang-ho (The Age of Shadows, The Host) in the titular role, the film is based on true events and is set during the volatile incidents of 1980, a year after South Korea’s authoritarian president’s assassination and the subsequent military coup d’état.
Man-seob, a taxi driver struggling to raise his daughter on his meager earnings, agrees to take a German journalist (Thomas Kretschmann, Avengers: Age of Ultron...
Song Kang-ho in A Taxi Driver (2017) (Source: Lkff 2017)
Starring Song Kang-ho (The Age of Shadows, The Host) in the titular role, the film is based on true events and is set during the volatile incidents of 1980, a year after South Korea’s authoritarian president’s assassination and the subsequent military coup d’état.
Man-seob, a taxi driver struggling to raise his daughter on his meager earnings, agrees to take a German journalist (Thomas Kretschmann, Avengers: Age of Ultron...
- 7/25/2017
- by Arnav Sinha
- AsianMoviePulse
The London Korean Film Festival (Lkff) continues the countdown to its 12th edition, scheduled for autumn 2017, with the UK premiere of Lee Soo-youn’s psychological thriller Bluebeard on the 10th of July.
Cho Jin-woong in Bluebeard (Source: London Korean Film Festival)
Bluebeard upholds the rich tradition of gripping thrillers from Korean cinema, while offering a new perspective on narratives featuring psychopaths, with a progressively unreliable narrator.
Trailer
The film features Cho Jin-woong as the neurotic doctor Seung-hoon, who suspects that his patient (Shin Goo) and the patient’s son (Kim Dae-myung), living downstairs in a butcher shop, are involved in a string of unsolved murders in the city. A trail of gruesome hints keeps the truth just out of reach as the director uses the claustrophobic environs of the city and the increasing paranoia of the doctor to crank up the tension, reaching a shocking finale.
Cho Jin-woong and Kim...
Cho Jin-woong in Bluebeard (Source: London Korean Film Festival)
Bluebeard upholds the rich tradition of gripping thrillers from Korean cinema, while offering a new perspective on narratives featuring psychopaths, with a progressively unreliable narrator.
Trailer
The film features Cho Jin-woong as the neurotic doctor Seung-hoon, who suspects that his patient (Shin Goo) and the patient’s son (Kim Dae-myung), living downstairs in a butcher shop, are involved in a string of unsolved murders in the city. A trail of gruesome hints keeps the truth just out of reach as the director uses the claustrophobic environs of the city and the increasing paranoia of the doctor to crank up the tension, reaching a shocking finale.
Cho Jin-woong and Kim...
- 6/20/2017
- by Arnav Sinha
- AsianMoviePulse
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