A Tale of Two Sisters
(Janghwa, Hongryeon)
Screening on Film
Directed by Kim Ji-woon.
With Kap-su Kim, Jung-ah Yum, Su-jeong Lim.
South Korea, 2003, 35mm, color, 115 min.
Korean with English subtitles.
With Kap-su Kim, Jung-ah Yum, Su-jeong Lim.
South Korea, 2003, 35mm, color, 115 min.
Korean with English subtitles.
As countless Asian psychological horror films find their way to the American multiplexes as Hollywood remakes, this screening marks a opportunity to see a true original. When two little girls are sent to live with their wicked stepmother in the country, strange events occur. Director Kim Ji-woon spends most of his film focused on the quiet, stately rhythms of family life before making an audacious, surrealist turn. Jung-ah Yum gives a manic performance as the stepmother on par with Bette Davis in Whatever Happened To Baby Jane? and Faye Dunaway in Mommie Dearest.