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Festival coverage

London Korean Film Festival

3 November – 17 November 2022

This year's London Korean Film Festival has a great line-up including some of the country's biggest hits this year, alongside past classics. It opens with time travelling adventure thriller Alienoid.

The festival runs from 3 to 17 November.

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Latest reviews

  • Seire
    Review preview for Seire

    A slow burn of a film which disturbs and unsettles, recalling insomniac night and too-bright mornings, a familiar world where everything seems slightly askew.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    A new father strives to protect his baby for the 21 days during which it is vulnerable to spiritual attack.
  • The 2nd Repatriation
    Review preview for The 2nd Repatriation

    Kim’s film is patiently, sensitively constructed, allowing plenty of room for his subjects to speak for themselves.

    Jennie Kermode · 3 out of 5
    A documentary about long term political prisoners who, though they ‘converted’ through coercion, still hope for repatriation to North Korea.
  • The Admiral: Roaring Currents
    Review preview for The Admiral: Roaring Currents

    No expense has been spared when it comes to the naval battle itself, which takes up the whole second half of the film and contains enough twists and turns to grip throughout.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    A dramatisation of the historical Battle of Myeongnyang and its star naval admiral Yi Sun-sin, who led a small fleet to improbable victory over a much larger Japanese fleet.
  • Alienoid
    Review preview for Alienoid

    All very big and spectacular and in your face.

    Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
    The door of time opens between the swordsman who wants to seize the legendary divine sword at the end of the Goryeo Dynasty and those who chase after an alien prisoner imprisoned in a human body in 2022.
  • Broker
    Review preview for Broker

    More pedantic than poetic, making for an unfulfilling watch.

    Dora Leu · 2 out of 5
    Drama following a group of people brought together by "baby post boxes" used to help abandoned babies.
  • The Fifth Thoracic Vertebra
    Review preview for The Fifth Thoracic Vertebra

    Where it could easily have been gimmicky or relied on comedy, instead it achieves something magical and illuminating.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    After a couple splits up, mould left behind on a mattress slowly grows into a creature that steals the vertebrae of humans who inhabit the bed.
  • Hansan: Rising Dragon
    Review preview for Hansan: Rising Dragon

    For the average viewer there are some awkward lags when nothing much is happening, but in the thick of the action, it’s exciting to watch.

    Jennie Kermode · 3 out of 5
    The story of a critical sea battle between Koreans and invading Japanese forces in 1592.

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