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Oldboy
Sat, Oct 1 | 7:30pm | TMT
Dae-su, a middle-aged drunkard and white- collar worker, has neither ambition nor purpose in life. One rainy night, Dae-su’s life takes a horrific turn: he is abducted and imprisoned in a windowless room for 15 years without explanation. After his release, he must find the reason for his captivity and seek redemp- tion. Oldboy , the second film in The Vengeance Trilogy of director Park Chan-wook, captivated international audiences upon its release. This film explosively explores the brutal extremes of the complex, visceral human instinct through the sophisticated lenses of storytelling, stun- ning visual compositions, and a meticulously curated soundtrack that often contradicts the brutal violence presented in its scenes.
DIRECTOR: Park Chan-wook.
WRITTEN BY: Park Chan-wook.
CAST: Choi Min-sik, Yoo Ji-tae, Kang Hye-jeong. 2003. 120 min. South Korea. Color. Scope. Korean. Rated R. DCP.
New remastered 4k DCP, courtesy of NEON.
R-Point
Sat, Oct 8 | 3pm | TMT
Kong Su-chang's directorial debut feature, R-Point , is a wartime horror film set in the early 1970s during the Vietnam War. A unit of Korean soldiers is dispatched to investigate the disappearance of an entire military squad in the desolate region known as R-Point. Terrifying events unfold as the horrific history of R-Point haunts the dispatch unit. Kong’s honest and insightful depiction of Korean soldiers in the Vietnam War is rather compli- cated—they are perpetrators of violent war crimes, but also victims of the war driven by imperialism. Horror triggered by global trauma is an unsettling theme explored in R-Point .
DIRECTOR: Kong Su-chang.
WRITTEN BY: Kong Su-chang, Pil Yeong-woo.
CAST: Kam Woo-seong, Lee Sun-kyun, Son Byung-ho.
2004. 107 min. South Korea. Color. Korean. Rated R. 35mm.
Print courtesy of KOFA.
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