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Sep
30
2008

눈에는눈 이에는이 (Eye for an Eye) and 그녀는 예뻤다 (Life is Cool) DVDs Out for Preor

Posted by X at 7:28am.

Posted in DVD News , Asia.

The Korean DVD cosmos has been a tad slow this summer, what with the Olympics and the fact that, well, the market is dead. Still, this Fall season seems to promise not too badly, if the beginning is of any indication. In the coming weeks we’ll be dealing with a pretty decent array of titles, mixing mainstream with arthouse and even some possible surprises.

First we start with the biggest name, Kwak Kyung-Taek (and Ahn Kwon-Tae)’s 눈에는눈 이에는이 (Eye for an Eye), quite a solid actioner with a top notch performance by the great Han Suk-Gyu. Not a great film nor anything which will stand the test of time, but overall an accomplished genre picture, and particularly recommended to fans of the leads. You can read our review here. Much better and a treat for the eyes is Choi Ik-Hwan’s interesting 그녀는 예뻤다 (Life is Cool), Korea’s first ever film to use the same rotoscoping artifices Richard Linklater adopted in is Waking Life. As we noted in our review, the peculiar thing here is that we’re getting the live-action footage with the DVD, boom mike operators and blue screens included (with, apparently, the possibility to change angle, although I don’t know if they’ll let us choose via remote or just offer different, separate versions).

A rather unexpected but pleasant surprise is the release of Zhang Lu’s 경계 (Desert Dream). Zhang is a third-generation Korean-Chinese director, and is rapidly making a name for himself as quite the solid auteur, after his excellent 망종 (Grain in Ear). DVD is a rather barebones affair with a mere letterbox transfer, but hey. I’ll take that over nothing. You can click the link below to preorder.

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