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This review was originally published during the Cannes Film Festival.
Its bloodless, perhaps enough to be vampiric.
It is a very suitable soundtrack for class warfare.
Lees film, which relocates the action to present-day South Korea, is very much a generational story.
Jong-soo and Hae-mi (Jeon Jong-seo) are young and poor and living decidedly outside the ascendant Korean Dream.
Pretty now, right?
she asks with cynical laugh.
The cat never shows up, however, even though Jong-soo shows up dutifully to feed it every day.
Yeun absorbs the moment with the impassive eyes of someone whos never experienced either.
I was a little let down, then, whenBurninglost its steam in its second half.
Perhaps the mystery of the world has yet to be solved.
