Jang Jin, director of wonderfully offbeat films like “Guns and Talks”, “Murder, Take One”, and more recently “The Quiz Show Scandal”, returns with another equally hard to pigeonhole offering in “Romantic Heaven”. Although its premise may sound suspiciously sentimental, dealing with a variety of characters and their relationships in both life and the afterlife, the film is very much in line with Jang’s previous works, being deliciously oddball and imaginative. As ever, the director assembled a top notch cast, including Kim Su Ro (“Death Bell 2”), Kim Dong Wook (“Take Off”), Shim Eun Kyung (“Hansel and Gretel”), Lim Won Hee (“Officer of the Year”) and others. The film basically plays out as three stories about people facing up to the deaths of loved ones, with Mimi (Kim Ji Won) trying to track down a bone marrow donor for her dying mother, and becoming involved in a murder investigation by accident,...
- 8/17/2011
- by James Mudge
- Beyond Hollywood
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