Directed by Lee Chang-dong Peppermint Candy feels like you're holding a clear plastic bag with a piranha in it. The whole thing is neatly presented in a series of flashbacks, leading to a man's suicide, yet within such a clean, simplistic structure is a character raging against the camera frame. Yongho's story is divided into … Continue reading Peppermint Candy (2000)
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Poetry (2010)
Directed by Lee Chang-dong While I don't as of yet have a firm grasp on what happens at the end of this movie, I'm nevertheless compelled to think of this as one of the best I've ever seen. That's ridiculous, right? It's kind of ridiculous, but it's riveting, tragic, at times amusing and eventually deeply … Continue reading Poetry (2010)
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