By all accounts, Kim Ki-duk took it a bit easier with his newest drama, The Net. There is no swallowing of fish hooks, skinning of frogs, or plunging of hands into your mother’s nether regions, to name but a few acts that have marked him as one of contemporary world cinema’s more “extreme” figures. (Whether that’s a compliment or a knock is up to you.) What he’s instead concocted here is a spy tale that finds intrigue in the North Korean-South Korean border that largely focuses on isolation and interrogations — occasionally of the violent kind, but not to the extent we’d otherwise expect from the South Korean.
Word out of Venice and Tiff has been positive enough, if not overwhelming, and with various criticisms (including the sense that Kim isn’t totally invested in this material) recurring. The set-up nevertheless intrigues — as does a first preview,...
Word out of Venice and Tiff has been positive enough, if not overwhelming, and with various criticisms (including the sense that Kim isn’t totally invested in this material) recurring. The set-up nevertheless intrigues — as does a first preview,...
- 9/19/2016
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
Controversial Korean auteur Kim Ki-duk’s The Net, set to world premiere at the upcoming Venice Film Festival, has pre-sold to seven countries including Japan (King Records).
The film also sold to Norway (As Fidalgo Film Distribution), Poland (Aurora Films), Turkey (Bir Film) and the Benelux countries (Contact Film).
The Net is set to receive its North American premiere in the Toronto International Film Festival’s Masters section next month.
The film will also screen in the Cinema In The Garden section at Venice – a festival where Kim has been a regular and where he previously won the Golden Lion for best film in 2012 with Pieta and the Silver Lion for best director in 2004 with 3-Iron. His One On One opened Venice Days in 2014.
The cast of The Net is headed by Ryoo Seung-bum (The Berlin File) and also features Lee Won-gun, Kim Young-min and Choi Guy-hwa.
The story follows a North Korean fisherman who accidentally ends up...
The film also sold to Norway (As Fidalgo Film Distribution), Poland (Aurora Films), Turkey (Bir Film) and the Benelux countries (Contact Film).
The Net is set to receive its North American premiere in the Toronto International Film Festival’s Masters section next month.
The film will also screen in the Cinema In The Garden section at Venice – a festival where Kim has been a regular and where he previously won the Golden Lion for best film in 2012 with Pieta and the Silver Lion for best director in 2004 with 3-Iron. His One On One opened Venice Days in 2014.
The cast of The Net is headed by Ryoo Seung-bum (The Berlin File) and also features Lee Won-gun, Kim Young-min and Choi Guy-hwa.
The story follows a North Korean fisherman who accidentally ends up...
- 8/17/2016
- by hjnoh2007@gmail.com (Jean Noh)
- ScreenDaily
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