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Three Colors: White (1994)

June 4, 2023June 4, 2023 by Eternality Tan

Family Life (1971)

June 3, 2023 by Eternality Tan

Love Eterne, The (1963)

June 1, 2023 by Eternality Tan

Seven Winters in Tehran (2023)

May 30, 2023 by Eternality Tan

Joyland (2022)

May 28, 2023 by Eternality Tan

Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman (2022)

May 27, 2023 by Eternality Tan

Taxi Driver, A (2017)

May 25, 2023May 25, 2023 by Eternality Tan

Afire (2023)

May 24, 2023 by Eternality Tan

Good Morning (1959)

May 22, 2023May 22, 2023 by Eternality Tan

Lost and Beautiful (2015)

May 20, 2023 by Eternality Tan

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Tag / South Korea

May 25, 2023May 25, 2023 by Eternality Tan

Taxi Driver, A (2017)

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  • 2017, South Korea
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Song Kang-ho is superb in this highly-engaging mainstream drama based on the dark history that was the 1980 Gwangju Uprising as a taxi driver unwittingly brings a German reporter to the site.

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Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

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April 27, 2023 by Eternality Tan

Return to Seoul (2022)

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  • 2022, Cambodia, France, South Korea
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A Korean adopted by a French couple when she was a baby returns to Korea for the first time as a French woman in Davy Chou’s intimate if chastening third feature, backed by an excellent performance from Park Ji-min in her acting debut. 

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Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

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February 15, 2023 by Eternality Tan

Tale of Cinema (2005)

  • Hong, Sang-soo
  • 2005, Hong, Sang-soo, South Korea
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A more melancholic piece than some of Hong’s breezier offerings as he explores fictive ideals and sad realities through the idea of cinema as a mirror image. 

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Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

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November 18, 2022 by Eternality Tan

Ajoomma (2022)

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  • 2022, He Shuming, Singapore, South Korea
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A promising and polished debut feature, this Singapore-Korean co-production has earnestness in abundance even if the storytelling doesn’t quite offer anything markedly revelatory.    

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Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

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October 5, 2022October 5, 2022 by Eternality Tan

Good, the Bad, the Weird, The (2008)

  • Kim, Jee-woon
  • 2008, Kim, Jee-woon, South Korea
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An outrageously fun kimchi western for the ages, this is one of the most accomplished action films from South Korea.

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Rating: 4 out of 5.

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July 14, 2022July 21, 2022 by Eternality Tan

Decision to Leave (2022)

  • Park, Chan-wook
  • 2022, Park Chan-wook, South Korea
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Park’s latest Cannes winner charts an alluringly new direction for him—a layered if at times convoluted crime procedural that hides an elusive romantic drama about the perverse relationship between a conflicted investigator and a seductive murder suspect.      

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Rating: 4 out of 5.

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June 20, 2022June 20, 2022 by Eternality Tan

Broker (2022)

  • Kore-eda, Hirokazu
  • 2022, Hirokazu Kore-eda, South Korea
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It’s more of the same from Kore-eda, but transplanted into a Korean setting, in this heartening mid-tier drama about characters trying to remain human despite not always being on the good side of the law. 

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Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

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May 19, 2022 by Eternality Tan

Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (2002)

  • Park, Chan-wook
  • 2002, Park Chan-wook, South Korea
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Favouring a gritty aesthetic, Park’s ‘revenge is a dish best served cold’ first instalment of his Vengeance trilogy is a brutal and convoluted tragedy of interlocking fates as a child kidnapping goes awry.   

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Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

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March 29, 2022November 13, 2022 by Eternality Tan

Novelist’s Film, The (2022)

  • Hong, Sang-soo
  • 2022, Hong, Sang-soo, South Korea
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Rather underwhelming and at best a minor effort, Hong’s latest explores the nature of being an artist, be it writing, filming or performing, while also functioning as a genteel love letter to his star and muse Kim Min-hee. 

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Rating: 3 out of 5.

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March 16, 2022 by Eternality Tan

Hahaha (2010)

  • Hong, Sang-soo
  • 2010, Hong, Sang-soo, South Korea
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One of Hong’s longest films but certainly one of his finest as two friends share over drinks the bittersweet details of their own separate trips to the seaside town of Tongyeong, as the uncertainties of love and conflict control the narrativisation of their memories.

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Rating: 4 out of 5.

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