Post by blackdragon on Jun 3, 2009 7:20:50 GMT -8
This is more coming attraction and less review as I have not yet seen this film at the time of this posting.
Park Chan-wook has a new movie coming out called Thirst. It has already been released in Korea and the release date for the US has been moved up to July 31st. Recently screening at Cannes, it received the Jury Prize.
It's hard to talk about Park's work without mentioning Oldboy, which I thought was an amazing film, yet not the masterpiece that most hold it up as. It's a great mindfuck and probably beyond any kind of revenge story that you could possibly imagine.
As for Thirst, it is about a priest who is changed into a vampire. Here again, the humans try and explain our condition as something that is caused by a virus. I suppose that trying to comprehend what we are as a biological condition gives them hope that they might be able to "cure" us and rid us from their world. I expect great things from this film and hopefully will not be let down.
Park Chan-wook has a new movie coming out called Thirst. It has already been released in Korea and the release date for the US has been moved up to July 31st. Recently screening at Cannes, it received the Jury Prize.
It's hard to talk about Park's work without mentioning Oldboy, which I thought was an amazing film, yet not the masterpiece that most hold it up as. It's a great mindfuck and probably beyond any kind of revenge story that you could possibly imagine.
As for Thirst, it is about a priest who is changed into a vampire. Here again, the humans try and explain our condition as something that is caused by a virus. I suppose that trying to comprehend what we are as a biological condition gives them hope that they might be able to "cure" us and rid us from their world. I expect great things from this film and hopefully will not be let down.
