Weekly Review Round-up (10/15-10/21, 2011)

This week we have a section dedicated to reviews from the recently wrapped Festival franco-coréen du film in Paris.  All of these are in French (my second language) and special thanks to Kim-Bong-Park, Made in Asie and asiafilm.fr for their hard work!  Also a number of The Yellow Sea reviews as it opens in the UK & Ireland.

Enjoy!

FFCF (Festival franco-coréen du film)

Anti Gas Skin

(asiafilm.fr, October 16, 2011)

(Kim-Bong-Park, October 16, 2011)

(Made in Asie, October 17, 2011)

Bleak Night

(asiafilm.fr, October 16, 2011)

(Made in Asie, October 13, 2011)

Café Noir

(Kim-Bong-Park, October 18, 2011)

(Made in Asie, October 19, 2011)

Castaway on the Moon, 2009

(asiafilm.fr, October 14, 2011)

(Kim-Bong-Park, October 13, 2011)

Cheonggyecheon Medley

(asiafilm.fr, October 15, 2011)

(Kim-Bong-Park, October 16, 2011)

Come, Closer

(asiafilm.fr, October 14, 2011)

End of Animal

(asiafilm.fr, October 13, 2011)

(Kim-Bong-Park, October 15, 2011)

(Made in Asie, October 15, 2011)

Grandmother's Flower

(asiafilm.fr, October 13, 2011)

Hello Ghost

(Made in Asie, October 17, 2011)

Invasion of Alien Bikini

(asiafilm.fr, October 18, 2011)

(Kim-Bong-Park, October 17, 2011)

(Made in Asie, October 17, 2011)

Late Autumn

(Kim-Bong-Park, October 17, 2011)

(Made in Asie, October 18, 2011)

Late Autumn, 1981

(Made in Asie, October 18, 2011)

Leafie, A Hen Into the Wild

(asiafilm.fr, October 19, 2011)

(Kim-Bong-Park, October 20, 2011)

Miracle on Jongno Street

(Made in Asie, October 13, 2011)

Possessed

(Kim-Bong-Park, October 14, 2011)

(Made in Asie, October 19, 2011)

Sunny

(asiafilm.fr, October 19, 2011)

(Kim-Bong-Park, October 12, 2011)

The Code of a Duel

(asiafilm.fr, October 17, 2011)

(Made in Asie, October 17, 2011)

The Day He Arrives

(asiafilm.fr, October 15, 2011)

RECENT RELEASES

Countdown

(Film Business Asia, October 19, 2011)

From Seoul to Varanasi

(Twitch, October 16, 2011)

(Variety, October 16, 2011 - Subscription Required)

Head

(Modern Korean Cinema, October 20, 2011)

Hindsight

(Variety, October 17, 2011 - Subscription Required)

Little Black Dress

(Modern Korean Cinema, October 18, 2011)

Memories of Murder

(subtitledonline, October 20, 2011)

Pink

(The Korea Times, October 20, 2011)

(Twitch, October 16, 2011)

Poetry

(straight.com, October 20, 2011)

Poongsan

(Film Business Asia, October 18, 2011)

Red Vacance, Black Wedding

(Twitch, October 16, 2011)

Silenced

(Film Business Asia, October 120 2011)

The Yellow Sea

(Empire, October 2011)

(entertainment.ie, October 17, 2011)

(Hangul Celluloid, October 17, 2011)

(metro.co.uk, October 21, 2011)

(Mini Mini Movie, October 13, 2011)

PAST FILMS

Possessed, 2009

(Kim Bong Park, October 14, 2011)

Treeless Montain, 2008

(Mmegionline, October 18, 2011)

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 Update. Reviews and features on Korean film also appear regularly on the site. 

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Weekly Review Round-up (09/17-09/23, 2011)

A good number of new reviews this week including a whole bunch relating to the Yeonghwa: Korean Film Today MOMA screenings currently taking place in New York. Since most of those reviews are from the event itself I've put them in their own section at the bottom.

NEW KOREAN RELEASES

Arrow, The Ultimate Weapon

(Front Row Reviews, September 18, 2011)

Blind

(Fangoria, September 22, 2011)

RECENT RELEASES

Amen

(Screen Daily, September 18, 2011)

(The Hollywood Reporter, September 22, 2011)

Bedevilled

(Twitch, September 22, 2011)

Metamorpheses

(Oriental Nightmares, September 19, 2011)

Officer of the Year

(Beyond Hollywood, September 21, 2011)

Poetry

(Metro Pulse, September 21, 2011)

Rolling Home With a Bull

(New Korean Cinema, September 22, 2011)

Secret Reunion

(Manila Bulletin, September 21, 2011)

Sin of a Family

(Beyond Hollywood, September 18, 2011)

Suicide Forecast

(Beyond Hollywood, September 15, 2011)

The Yellow Sea

(Cigarette Burns, September 7, 2011)

(Empire Online, September 2011)

PAST FILMS

A Good Lawyer's Wife, 2003

(Anikor, September 21, 2011)

Lost in the Mountains, 2009

(Twitch, September 22, 2011)

Mother Is a Whore, 2009

(Beyond Hollywood, September 18, 2011)

Passerby #3, 2009

(New Korean Cinema, September 19, 2011)

Rainy Days, 1979

(Init_Scenes, September 19, 2011)

Secret Sunshine, 2007

(Metro Pulse, September 21, 2011)

The Chaser, 2008

(sky.com, September 2011)

The Sword With No Name, 2009

(DVD Verdict, September 20, 2011)

YEONGHWA: KOREAN FILM TODAY

Animal Town, 2009

Hello Ghost, 2010

Influenza, 2004

Lost in the Mountains, 2009

Midnight FM, 2010

Mozart Town, 2008

Passerby #3, 2009

Rolling Home With A Bull, 2010

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 Update. Reviews 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.