Two fathers and two sons are embroiled in the aftermath of a cover-up wherein one boy winds up dead and the other imprisoned. Su-jin Lee could have spun his tale with little else since the perpetrator’s father (Han Suk-kyu’s Koo Myung-hui) is a political messiah running for governor while the victim’s dad (Sol Kyung-gu’s Yoo Joong-sik) possesses just enough desperation and desire for retribution to go to court and make certain no strings are pulled behind the scenes for leniency. Although that’s the sort of heavy drama that can sustain a film like Idol for at least ninety minutes, Lee thinks much bigger as his never-ending series of incendiary twists and turns unfolds.
His first step in making things hurt is providing these fathers a choice. Koo comes home from a business trip to find his wife in the garage next to a dead man wrapped in plastic.
His first step in making things hurt is providing these fathers a choice. Koo comes home from a business trip to find his wife in the garage next to a dead man wrapped in plastic.
- 7/30/2019
- by Jared Mobarak
- The Film Stage
Looking over the Fantasia Film Festival guide, one quote in the “Han Gong-ju” section is conspicuous. Martin Scorsese calls the film “outstanding,” noting its "mise-en-scene, image, sound, and performance.” Last December, in his capacity as Jury President of the Marrakech Film Festival, presiding over a group including Marion Cotillard, Fatih Akin, and Park Chan-wook among others, Scorsese awarded Su-jin Lee’s debut feature film the top prize, and has been championing it ever since. When arguably the biggest cinema geek of all time (no offense to Quentin Tarantino) backs a movie with such praise, one tends to pay attention. But we find ourselves in the peculiar position where we disagree with one of the greatest living filmmakers regarding just how outstanding this film really is. “Han Gong-ju” opens with a girl’s voiceover stating how she hears music in every sound. The voice belongs to Han Gong-ju (Woo-hee Chun), a student transferring to a new.
- 7/28/2014
- by Nikola Grozdanovic
- The Playlist
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