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.