Programme edition 2022
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Burning (버닝)
Lee Chang-dong
This exceptionally subtle character study is at once enigmatic, suspenseful, endearing and ambiguous. From éducation sentimentale, the film evolves into a metaphysical thriller around a complicated love triangle between two young men and a mysterious young woman.
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Carnival of Souls
Herk Harvey
A young woman comes to the chilling discovery of how much of herself she has really lost in a car accident. An inspiration for David Lynch, Christian Petzold and George A. Romero, the inventive and atmospheric Carnival of Souls has become a low budget cult classic since the ...
The Chaser (추격자)
Na Hong-jin
A virtuoso duel between a pimp watching his girls disappear one by one and the clever serial killer he is desperately trying to catch. Nail-beating and suspenseful.
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A Ghost Story
David Lowery
The extraordinary A Ghost Story embraces mystery and grief in David Lowery's serene narrative cloaked in long takes and a square aspect ratio. Future and past silently intersect, like the ghost and his lover in this small and precious ghost film.
The Green Knight
David Lowery
"Green is what is left when ardor fades, when passion dies, when we die, too", the inexperienced knight Gawain learns during his quest for eternal glory in the imaginative The Green Knight. An Arthurian legend viewed differently, as visually as overwhelming as it is wonderfully ...
H
The Host (괴물)
Bong Joon-ho
The director of Parasite delivers a monster film full of social criticism, subversive humour, ecological awareness and cinematic brio.
The Housemaid (1960) (하녀)
Kim Ki-young
This classis of South Korean cinema of the sixties is an erotically charged thriller about a manipulative maid who drags a neat bourgeois family into the deepest depths. A marriage of the cinema of Hitchcock and Buñuel.
The Housemaid (2010) (하녀)
Im Sang-soo
An aesthetically delightful remake of Im Sang-soo's 1960 classic about a maid who violently shakes up a posh family. Seductive cinema of the addictive kind.
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Joint Security Area (공동경비구역)
Park Chan-wook
North-South tensions flare high in this early film by Park Chan-wook. Alongside the political trauma, there is also the bonding of border guards in the demilitarised zone between the two Koreas.
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The King of Pigs (돼지의 왕)
Yeon Sang-ho
Before he made the zombie fest Train to Busan, Yeon Sang-ho surprised with this animated film about the devastating effects of bullying at school, an arena where extreme brutality and social inequality prevail, reflecting Korean society in general.
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Madonna (마돈나)
Shin Su-won
This brilliantly directed thriller is also a virulent indictment of the ruling elite in a ruthless class society that a nurse goes to a war against and a prostitute falls victim to.
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The Old Man & the Gun
David Lowery
The Old Man & the Gun pays tribute to a bygone (film) era and the career of its aging star Robert Redford whose charm has effortlessly stood the test of time. A light-hearted crime film as elegant and stylish as its gentleman/bank robber.
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Painted Fire (취화선)
Im Kwon-taek
Veteran director Im Kwon-taek tells the story of a famous Korean painter and erotomaniac who is completely absorbed in his work and goes through life drinking and copulating. The film is set against the backdrop of Korea's turbulent history of the second half of the 19th century.
Pete's Dragon (6+)
David Lowery
For Pete's Dragon, David Lowery reworked the family film of the same name from the 1970s into a modern, warm adventure for young and old. About the bond between a feral child and the forest dragon who watches over him. Children get older, trees get bigger, and so do stories.
Petite maman
Céline Sciamma
After Portrait de la jeune fille en feu, French filmmaker Céline Sciamma enchants again with the modern fairytale Petite maman. A gem that invites you to reminisce together, cry softly and heal slowly.
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Son of the White Mare (Fehérlófia)
Marcell Jankovics
On the mountain peaks of the animation medium rests this giant of a film, ready to share its dreams with a new generation of admirers. Son of the White Mare splashes off the screen like a modernist rock painting.
The Spy Gone North (공작)
Yoon Jong-bin
The true story of the spy 'Black Venus', a loyal South Korean secret agent tasked with extracting information about the nuclear programme of North Korea in the 1990s, inspires Yoon Jong-bin to create a Korean version of the moral twilight zones from John le Carré's novels.
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Woman is the Future of Man (여자는 남자의 미래다)
Hong Sang-soo
Delicately and elegantly, arthouse favourite Hong Sang-soo observes with requisite understated humour the floundering and fumbling of ordinary people struggling with the fragile and elusive nature of love.