THE AGE OF SHADOWS and THE NET to Premiere in Venice

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THE AGE OF SHADOWS and THE NET to Premiere in Venice

Aug 05, 2016

Writer by Pierce Conran
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Korean Auteurs on Show at 73rd Biennale

The upcoming 73rd Venice International Film Festival, the oldest major film event in the world, will host the premieres of new works from two major Korean talents. Acclaimed genre auteur KIM Jee-woon will take his first steps on the Lido with his Colonial Era action-thriller The Age of Shadows while former Golden Lion winner KIM Ki-duk returns to the fest with his latest film The Net.

KIM’s first film shot in Korea since 2010’s I Saw The Devil (he released his 2013 Hollywood debut The Last Stand in the interim), The Age of Shadows reunites the director with frequent acolyte SONG Kang-ho in a tale of a Korean independence group that fights against Japanese oppressors during the Colonial Era which stretched from 1910 to 1945. GONG Yoo, who is currently riding high on the success of the zombie thriller TRAIN TO BUSAN, co-stars in the film. The film, which screens Out of Competition in Venice, is slated to open in Korea on September 7th and will also screen at the Toronto International Film Festival.

Already a winner at Venice in 2004, when he received the Silver Lion for Best Director for 3-Iron, and 2012, when he picked up the Golden Lion for Pieta, KIM Ki-duk returns to Venice with his 22nd feature The Net, his first trip since 2014’s One on One. The film features actor RYOO Seung-bum in the lead role, last seen in IM Sang-soo’s Intimate Enemies (2015). The film will screen in the ‘Cinema in the Garden’ section.

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