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LKFF 2018: Cho Kyu-Jang’s THE WITNESS Testifies With An Incriminating Look At Humanity

Jump scares are aplenty going forward without much overkill as director Cho Kyu-jang assures his viewers in an ample first fifteen minutes of his latest summer pic, The Witness. Next to its intriguing introduction, the film wastes no time immersing you in the dark world of our antagonist as his latest victim runs for her life in the dark of night only to end up beaten to death on a residential block – her killer quick to spot who’s watching. The post-opener sets our film hours before the deadly incident, introducing Sang-Hoon, an ordinary office worker just celebrating the purchase of his home in Gwacheon. Coming home with a drunken stupor, he’s slow to notice the faint, albeit audible cries for help coming from several floors below, just outside his building. A woman is suddenly beaten to death by a baseball cap-wearing killer with a hammer, and while he’s instinctive […]

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LKFF 2018

The 13th London Korean Film Festival Announces Its Full Line-Up

If you’re in London and feeling the film festival mood, you’ll have about a month to yourself starting Thursday for the 2018 installment of the London Korean Film Festival (LKFF), now online with its full programme for the 13th edition. The festival will run through November 25, hosted this year by the Korean Cultural Centre UK along with the support of the Korean Ministry of Culture, Sports & Tourism, the Korean Film Council and Korean Film Archive. The UK Premiere of Jeon Go-woon’s award-winning film, Microhabitat (2018, UK Premiere) will serve as the opening gala centered on a young woman journeying across the city and back into the lives of her former bandmates after being forced from her apartment. Danish-Korean director Malene Choi’s emotively-charged adoption drama, The Return (2018) starring Karoline Sofie Lee as a young woman returning to Korea in an effort to track down her birth parents, will […]

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