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- Fantasia Feasts on Korean Film
- by Pierce Conran / Jul 14, 2014
- North America's Genre Utopia Splurges on 18 Titles
One of the world’s top genre film events, Montreal’s Fantasia International Film Festival, is no stranger to the Korean film industry, but for their upcoming 16th edition, they’ve demonstrated their appreciation for the country’s cinema in grand form by selecting 18 titles from the peninsula.The program was announced in three waves, with the final one, released on July 10th, revealing the lion’s share of the Korean titles on offer. Commercial and indie cinema are both well represented, going from the international premiere of incoming period blockbuster Kundo: Age of the Rampant down to the low-budget hit Han Gong-ju.Also on offer this year are a pair of feature animations: YEON Sang-ho’s harrowing but critically-acclaimed The Fake, which already screened in Canada when it debuted at the Toronto International Film Festival last September, and The Satellite Girl and Milk Cow, a cute and colorful family film that further demonstrates Korea’s burgeoning animated sector.Among major Korean hits from the last 12 months are surveillance thriller Cold Eyes (also a TIFF premiere), period potboiler The Fatal Encounter, family comedy Miss Granny and spy action-thriller The Suspect. The rest of the commercial films include revenge thriller The Fives, period Charlie’s Angels style action-comedy The Huntresses, Save the Green Planet (2003) director JANG Joon-hwan’s dark comeback Hwayi: A Monster Boy, 3D baseball-playing gorilla film Mr. Go, hitman thriller No Tears for the Dead and spy comedy The Spy: Undercover Operation.Other indies or smaller films featured on this year’s lineup are revenge thriller Days of Wrath, Korean Academy of Film Arts title Ingtoogi: The Battle of Internet Trolls, North Korean spy drama Red Family (produced and written by KIM Ki-duk) and indie drama Steel Cold Winter.Fantasia kicks off on July 17th and runs all the way to August 6th.
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