ASIA EXTREME - ALL FILMS
Oldboy
Park Chanwook, Director
2003
76
Color
Korean filmmaker Park Chanwook (SYMPATHY FOR MR. VENGEANCE), vaulted to international prominence when a Cannes Film Festival Jury headed by Quentin Tarantino awarded OLDBOY the Grand Prize. Intense, visceral and disturbing, Park's fifth feature is a violent philosophical parable of revenge and redemption in which an ordinary businessman, mysteriously held captive in a room for 15 years, is granted five days of freedom to discover the reason for his imprisonment. "A grand, gritty, indelible experience...infused with tragic poetry" - Salon.
TAGS
| Ants, Snow, Tongue, Gas, Mask, Tooth, Anger, Cruelty, Incest, Dog, Hallucination, Mute, Masturbation, Violence, Nudity, Past, Jealousy, Villain, Prison |  |
SCREENINGS
CAST AND CREW:
| Director | Park Chanwook |
