Writer/director Kim Yong-hoon’s feature debut Beasts Clawing At Straws (Jipuragirado japgo sipeun jimseungdeul) opens with a bravura tracking shot. A person walks into a sauna complex, and places a Louis Vuitton bag into a locker – and the mobile camera cleaves not so much to the person (who is mostly out of shot) as to…
Introduction to a screening of Lee Chang-dong’s Peppermint Candy at the Korean Cultural Centre UK, Thursday 24th September, 2015 The ‘peppermint candy’ in the film you are about to see is quite literally that – a factory-produced bonbon that protagonist Yong-ho (played by Sol Kyung-gu) is shown at various moments eating, storing, buying, sharing. Yet it is…