Park Chan-wook
13 titles · korean new wave
Baroque cruelty, immaculately composed. Park pairs extreme content with fastidious design — symmetry, colour blocking, elaborate camera moves — so that atrocity arrives beautifully framed. Revenge is pursued to the point where it stops being satisfying, which is the argument.
Signature
- Ornate, deliberate compositions housing appalling events.
- Revenge structures that indict the appetite for revenge.
- Black comedy adjacent to the worst moments.
- Desire, complicity and disgust deliberately entangled.
The Handmaiden
Stoker
Lady Vengeance
Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance
Decision to Leave
No Other Choice
Thirst
Joint Security Area
I'm a Cyborg, But That's OK
Three... Extremes
Trio
The Moon Is... the Sun's Dream
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