Showing posts with label romance joe. Show all posts
Showing posts with label romance joe. Show all posts

Monday, September 3, 2012

Romance Joe (로맨스 조, Lo-maen-seu Joe) 2012


By Rex Baylon

Fractured storylines, unreliable narration and meta-narratives have all become the requisite tools of the trade for films with a postmodernist slant. The realization by filmmakers as far back as the 1960s, when the enfants terribles of France’s Nouvelle Vague tore down the barrier between good "taste" and good "cinema", have not only prompted experimentation in plot and genre, but also, on occasion, led to genuine masterpieces. Of course, there have also been a plethora of over-inflated and pretentious works that have been released to varying degrees of fanfare since then.

In writer-director Kwang-kuk Lee’s debut film Romance Joe (2011) the eponymously named Romance Joe is both an actual character in the movie, played by Kim Young-pil and Lee Da-wit, and an invention: a plot device, utilized by several characters in the film when telling their own personal/invented stories about the pain of love and the ways that fiction and fact can bleed together.

Friday, April 6, 2012

Weekly Review Round-up (03/31-04/06, 2012)

Great cross-section of reviews this week including for a number of new releases.

Enjoy!


CURRENT KOREAN RELEASES


(Film Business Asia, April 6, 2012)

(Hanguk Yeonghwa, April 5, 2012)

(Variety, March 29, 2012 - Paid Subscription)

Stateless Things


RECENT RELEASES


(Film in Asian, April 2, 2012)

(Digital Retribution, April 4, 2012)

(The One One Four, April 1, 2012)

(Hanguk Yeonghwa, April 1, 2012)

(China.org.cn, March 30, 2012)

(Variety, March 30, 2012 - Paid Subscrition)

My Way

(hancinema.net, March 31, 2012)

The Yellow Sea


PAST FILMS


(Init_Scene, March 31, 2012)

(Korean Class Massive, April 2, 2012)

(Init_Scenes, March 30, 2012)

My Love, 2007
(Init_Scenes, April 1, 2012)

(Init_Scenes, April 5, 2012)

(Korean Grindhouse, March 31, 2012)

(Seen in Jeonju, April 1, 2012)


The Weekly Review Round-up is a weekly feature which brings together all available reviews of Korean films in the English language (and sometimes French) that have recently appeared on the internet. It is by no means a comprehensive feature and additions are welcome (email pierceconran [at] gmail [dot] com). It appears every Friday morning (GMT+1) on Modern Korean Cinema. For other weekly features, take a look at Korean Cinema News, and the Korean Box Office UpdateReviews and features on Korean film also appear regularly on the site. 

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Friday, March 23, 2012

Weekly Review Round-up (03/17-03/23, 2012)

Lots of great writeups in this week's review round-up including for a number of new Korean releases.


CURRENT KOREAN RELEASES


(Scene in Korea, March 22, 2012)

(The Hollywood Reporter, March 20, 2012)

(Scene in Korea, March 17, 2012)

(Slant Magazine, March 17, 2012)


RECENT FILMS


Always

(Twitch, March 20, 2012)

(Hangul Celluloid, March 19, 2012)

(Init_Scenes, March 19, 2012)

(ROK Drop, March 20, 2012)

(Beyond Hollywood, March 21, 2012)

(Twitch, March 20, 2012)

(Beyond Hollywood, March 22, 2012)

Sunny

(Init_Scenes, March 17, 2012)

(Beyond Hollywood, March 20, 2012)

(Movies With Butter, March 18, 2012)

(Korean Candy, March 19, 2012)

(Groove Korea, March 18, 2012)


PAST FILMS


Actresses, 2009
(Otherwhere, March 16, 2012)

Breathless, 2008
(Asian Movie Pulse, March 18, 2012)

(Seen in Jeonju, March 19, 2012)

(Rainy Day Movies, March 18, 2012)

Oasis, 2002
(Next Projection, March 19, 2012)

(Korean Grindhouse, March 17, 2012)

Vengeance Trilogy, 2002-2005
(Init_Scenes, March 22, 2012)



The Weekly Review Round-up is a weekly feature which brings together all available reviews of Korean films in the English language (and sometimes French) that have recently appeared on the internet. It is by no means a comprehensive feature and additions are welcome (email pierceconran [at] gmail [dot] com). It appears every Friday morning (GMT+1) on Modern Korean Cinema. For other weekly features, take a look at Korean Cinema News, and the Korean Box Office UpdateReviews and features on Korean film also appear regularly on the site. 

To keep up with the best in Korean film you can sign up to our RSS Feed, like us on Facebook, or follow us on Twitter.