Spotlight on Korean Cinema
Celebrating 60 years of diplomatic relations between Canada and the Republic of Korea, the Fantasia International Film Festival, in collaboration with the Korean Cultural Center Canada and the Cinémathèque Québécoise, is proud to showcases six South Korean classics that have shaped the decades and contributed to the revival of South Korean cinema that we know in the late 90s and early 2000s – a creative effervescence that hasn’t stopped since.
FEATURE
President's Last Bang
Im Sanghoo’s dark-humoured recreation of dictator Park Chunghee’s assassination earned him governmental opprobrium, a lawsuit — and a permanent place in the canon of outstanding South Korean cinema.
Take Care of My Cat
A year after graduating, five inseparable girls who had begun drifting apart are brought back together by a stray cat, in Jeong Jae-eun’s classic coming-of-age debut.
Une femme coréenne (A Good Lawyer's Wife)
All is not well in the seemingly perfect household of a former dancer and her lawyer husband. An erotically charged drama laced with dark humour from Im Sang-soo, poker of sociological hornet nests.
Io Island
An executive travels to a mysterious island to investigate a death and clear his name in Kim Ki-young’s delirious folk horror masterpiece from 1977.
Chilsu and Mansu
Billboard painters Chilsu and Mansu take on a big job and reckon with a changing society, in Park Kwang-su’s 1980s debut, a landmark of South Korean cinema.
Peppermint Candy
As powerful now as ever, Lee Chang-Dong’s classic, novelistic breakthrough takes us through seven key chapters of a man’s unraveling life, and of a country’s history.