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Festival coverage

London Korean Film Festival

2009

Breathless
Breathless

This festival, featuring the best new film from South Korea, celebrated its third edition at the Barbican in London from London November 5 to 12 2009. Among the directors in attendance was Park Chan-wook.

There was a Yu Hyun-mok retrospective and there was also a showing of the first two episodes of new Korean animation Dreamkix.

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  • Thirst
    Review preview for Thirst

    Park presents familiar vampiric tropes in a fresh and interesting way.

    Scott Macdonald · 3.5 out of 5
    A man is turned into a vampire by an experimental medical treatment.
  • Breathless
    Review preview for Breathless

    Although Yang's directorial debut is overlong and unecessarily laboured in the early section, he is genuinely bringing something fresh to the table in terms of the atmosphere he creates.

    Amber Wilkinson · 3.5 out of 5
    Can a schoolgirl offer salvation to a Korean gangster?
  • Dream
    Review preview for Dream

    Kim Ki-duk is using language to highlight the communicative gulf that exists between his dramatis personae.

    Anton Bitel · 4 out of 5
    A woman acts out the dreams of a stranger.