Showing posts with label lee don-ku. Show all posts
Showing posts with label lee don-ku. Show all posts

Saturday, October 4, 2014

Busan 2014 Review: ENTANGLED Gets Caught Up in Its Own Depressing Narrative


Part of MKC's coverage of the 19th Busan International Film Festival

By Pierce Conran

Following the blistering debut Fatal, a gritty rape-revenge thriller that bowed at the Busan Film Festival in 2012, Lee Don-ku returns to Busan with the disappointing family drama Entangled. Though it seeks to inspire a similar sense of shock and outrage with its raw family dynamics and desperate plot turns, Lee's matter-of-fact mise-en-scene and his narrative's inherent histrionics combine to form a humdrum and overly familiar Korean indie.