Cruel Winter Blues (Yeolhyeol-nama) ***
Lee Jeong-beom, 2007
Korea
@ IFC Center (New York Asian Film Festival)
It's about a gangster from Seoul and his inexperienced sidekick who travel to a small town in order to take revenge on a mob boss. Difficulties arise when the gangster makes friends with the mother of his arch-enemy. This is an awesome movie for all kinds of reasons. There are interesting, richly detailed male and female characters of all sorts of ages and backgrounds. The protagonist is at once both sympathetic and kind of disgustingly greedy and egotistical. Plot twists. The final death scene. The shopping scene. I don't know.
See also: Koreanfilm.org
Lee Jeong-beom, 2007
Korea
@ IFC Center (New York Asian Film Festival)
It's about a gangster from Seoul and his inexperienced sidekick who travel to a small town in order to take revenge on a mob boss. Difficulties arise when the gangster makes friends with the mother of his arch-enemy. This is an awesome movie for all kinds of reasons. There are interesting, richly detailed male and female characters of all sorts of ages and backgrounds. The protagonist is at once both sympathetic and kind of disgustingly greedy and egotistical. Plot twists. The final death scene. The shopping scene. I don't know.
See also: Koreanfilm.org
Labels: 2007, 3 Stars, Korea, Lee Jeong-beom
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