Young Hwa: Korean Dinner + Film

19:00 A Korean meal for 5 euro. Update: all meals have been reserved.

21:00 Lady Vengeance (2005). Note: the previously announced The Old Garden (2006) has been cancelled. 4 euro.

There’s a moment in Lady Vengeance when the central character commissions a weapon with the stern direction that ‘It has to be pretty. Everything should be pretty.’ It’s descriptive for the films of Chan-wook... [read more]

19:00 A Korean meal for 5 euro. Update: all meals have been reserved.

21:00 Lady Vengeance (2005). Note: the previously announced The Old Garden (2006) has been cancelled. 4 euro.

There’s a moment in Lady Vengeance when the central character commissions a weapon with the stern direction that ‘It has to be pretty. Everything should be pretty.’ It’s descriptive for the films of Chan-wook Park, in which unabashed, even sadistic, violence is married with an aesthete’s concern for the well-turned image. The final part of his ‘vengeance trilogy’, this shares its predecessors’ formal and thematic concerns rather than their characters or settings: like Sympathy for Mr Vengeance and Oldboy, it’s a slow-burning retribution narrative in which a well-founded, better-nursed grudge is visited on the body of its target with such calculated ferocity that the boundaries of victim and perpetrator blur in the red mist. Pound-of-flesh cinema, you might say.

Lady Vengeance (2005)
by Chan-wook Park, KOR, 112 min.

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