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"Thirst" (Director's Cut) screening at PUSAN WEST
[2009/145min/D-Cinema/color]
Thirst is Park Chan-wooks modern take on vampire genre and its conventions. By establishing a priest-turned-vampire as the main protagonist, Park once again turns his blood sucking horror story into an ironic tale about sin and redemption, themes he has constantly dealt with in his Vengeance Trilogy. As LA Times describes, the film is constructed of beautifully composed images of aestheticized violence, however, it ultimately becomes a complex tale that blends classic tales of Shakespearean tragedy, evil stepmother and abusive husband, murderous love and moral dilemma.
Sanghyun (Song, Kang-ho), a much respected small town priest, volunteers for a vaccine development experiment in Africa. However, the experiment fails and through blood transfusion, he is turned into a vampire. Upon returning home, he runs into a childhood friend Kang-woo (Shin, Ha-kyun) and his wife Tae-ju (Kim, Ok-vin). He is drawn to Tae-ju and to the pleasures of the flesh
Q&A with Director Chan-wook Park after the screening!
Chan-wook Park initially wanted to be an art critic, however, upon seeing Hitchcocks Vertigo in his college days he decided to become a filmmaker. After working some years as a film critic and assistant director, he made his directorial debut in 1992 with a crime romance thriller The Moon is the Suns Dream and then five years later, another crime comedy Trio. However, his early films were not successful and he had to make living by running a video rental shop and writing film criticism. His breakthrough came in 2000 with a Korean-style blockbuster film JSA: Joint Security Area which broke the highest boxoffice record at the time. This success gave him more creative control over his next project, Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (2002) and his subsequent Vengeance Trilogy Oldboy (2003) and Sympathy for Lady Vengeance (2005) in which he developed his idiosyncratic visual style combined with black humor. Park gained international fame when Oldboy won the Grand Prix Award at Cannes International Film Festival in 2004. One of the most acclaimed directors in Korea, Park won the Jury Prize at Cannes in 2009 with Thirst.
Price includes admission to Opening Night Reception after the screening.
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LocationChapman Univesity - Dodge College
283 North Cypress Street
Orange, CA 92866
United States
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| Wheelchair Accessible: No |
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