NYAFF XXII Review: KILLING ROMANCE, On Finding Your Voice
Lee Won-suk’s third film after The Royal Tailor and How To Use Guys With Secret Tips comes by way of Killing Romance, a comedy with its own whimsical spin on the “wife-kills-husband” movie subgenre. Directing from a script by Park Jung-ye who’s penned films such as Cheer Up Mr. Lee and the award-winning The Beauty Inside, Killing Romance stars Lee Sun-kyun of Parasite fame, and reunites Extreme Job cohorts Lee Ha-nee and Gong Myung. Opening up with a kids TV show-style story reading in pan/scan format, Killing Romance initiates with an English-speaking narrator that invites you into the glitzy and glamorous world of Yeo-rae (Lee Ha-nee), a film and TV star whose screen resume, picturesque charm and Guiness world record-holding status for fastest in soft-drinking speed have rocketed her to fame and fortune. Her latest ambitious sci-fi effort, however, proves to be a bust, making her a laughing stock with […]