Tag Archives: Park Chan-Wook

Decision To Leave review — Korean noir a little undercooked

November 8, 2022 flawintheiris

aka Heojil kyolshim | Directed by Park Chan-wook | Written by Park Chan-wook and Seo-kyeong Jeong | 138 min | ▲▲▲△△ An earlier version of this review appeared on FITI in September during the Toronto International Film Festival After the triumph that was his last film, The Handmaiden, Korean filmmaker Park Chan-wook delivers an ostensible,… Read More

Causeway, The Eternal Daughter, and Decision To Leave reviews #TIFF22

September 17, 2022 flawintheiris

Causeway | Directed by Lila Neugebauer | Written by Luke Goebel, Ottessa Moshfegh, and Elizabeth Sanders | 92 min This lean, even austere New Orleans-set drama is from a first-timer, and sees the return of Jennifer Lawrence — who's taken a little time away from her acting career recently — giving a surprisingly embodied performance, all angular… Read More

Stoker review

March 23, 2013 flawintheiris

Directed by Park Chan-Wook | Written by Wentworth Miller and Erin Cressida Wilson | 98 min | On Demand A little like if Dark Shadows was played totally straight, Stoker is a concoction both fluffy and gothic, a self-conscious Hitchcock pastiche that dances on the edge of camp before eventually becoming the thing it pretends to be. Park… Read More