Cannes: July Jung talks to us about A Girl at My Door, identity and Lee Chang-dong
July Jung‘s directorial debut, A Girl at My Door, premiered at the Cannes Film Festival as part of Un Certain Regard. I was lucky enough to speak to her about the film after the screening. She shared her thoughts on working with producer Lee Chang-dong, on the portrayal of justice in Korean films and the … Read more
The Rover review
David Michôd‘s follow up to his breakout critical hit, the 2010 crime saga Animal Family, is filled with even more dread, violence and bleakness. The Rover is set in an Australia of the future and opens with a title card that tells us we’re “Ten Years After the Collapse.” It’s never entirely clear what that collapse consisted … Read more
Cannes: Doona Bae, Kim Sae-ron and Song Sae-byuk discuss A Girl at My Door
July Jung‘s A Girl at My Door explores many difficult themes, including child abuse, mental health, alcoholism and homophobia, always in a very sensitive manner. The characters in A Girl at My Door are complex and therefore the three principal actors, Doona Bae, Kim Sae-ron and Song Sae-byuk, have a lot of difficult work to … Read more
Cannes: Two Days, One Night review
The films of Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne are widely acclaimed by critics but maybe don’t cross over to public appreciation like some other, similar works. Their films are often extraordinarily moving, flawlessly made and soiciopolitically fascinating but they also tell small, intimate stories in a very quiet and restrained manner which tends not to … Read more