Park Chan-wook

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.