The Quiet Family (Choyonghan kajok) first published by Movie Gazette Together with her parents (Park In-hwan, Na Moon-hee), her older brother and sister (Song Kang-ho, Lee Yun-seong) and her uncle (Choi Min-sik), seventeen-year old Kang Mi-na (Ko Ho-kyung) moves from downtown Seoul to a mountainous country region to open the ‘Misty Lodge’ – but their…
Beyond North America: three horror hotspots from the last decade first published by Sight & Sound, Novemeber 2020 Horror’s mainstream is, broadly, North American, dominating our theatres and setting the genre’s rules. Yet it is often at the margins beyond these borders where the rules are broken, where pioneering exploratory work is done, and where…
Peppermint Candy first published by Little White Lies It seems appropriate that, after being honoured in 1999 as the first domestically produced film to open the Pusan International Film Festival, Peppermint Candy was released into Korean cinemas on January 1, 2000. After all, Korean novelist Lee Chang-dong‘s second feature (after 1997’s award-winning Green Fish), uses the personal story of one man’s…