Park Chan-wook’s No Different Alternative, which marks the Korean filmmaker’s first time taking part in within the Venice Movie Pageant competitors, scored an 8 1/2-minute ovation Friday after the jet-black comedy thriller’s world premiere.
The twelfth film from the Oldboy, Handmaiden and Determination to Depart writer-director is predicated on the 1997 novel The Ax by Donald Westlake and follows a person (Squid Recreation‘s Lee Byung-hun) who’s abruptly laid off by the paper firm the place he labored tirelessly for 25 years. He grows more and more determined in his hunt for brand spanking new work.
The gang’s response tonight within the Sala Grande was enthusiastic, which left Park wanting happy through the ovation. The followers have been noisiest for positive for Lee, the Squid Recreation star.
The film additionally stars Son Yejin (The Final Princess), Park Hee-soon (My Identify), Lee Sung-min (The Spy Gone North), Yeom Hye-ran (The Glory), Cha Seung-won (Believer) and Yoo Yeon-seok (Mr. Sunshine).
In his evaluate, Deadline’s Damon Smart known as the movie “improbable enjoyable, an endlessly shocking ensemble piece that’s greatest approached chilly.” He had particular reward for Lee, calling him “a shock slapstick grasp whose presence is an anarchic fusion of Mads Mikkelsen and Buster Keaton.”
Park received Finest Director at Cannes in 2022 for Determination to Depart. Just lately, he made headlines for being expelled from the Writers Guild of America for allegedly violating strike guidelines. He and writing accomplice Don McKellar have pushed again on the union’s characterization of their actions on The Sympathizer in 2023, and as of early August weren’t interesting the choice.
That situation was not addressed earlier within the day at a jam-packed Venice press convention, the place Park fielded questions concerning the very lengthy gestation of No Different Alternative, whereas his actors mentioned working with the grasp filmmaker.
No Different Alternative will open the Busan Worldwide Movie Pageant on September 17. Mubi has worldwide distribution, with Neon dealing with North America. Will probably be launched in Korea on September 24 and is taking part in the New York Movie Pageant subsequent month.
No Different Alternative is produced by Park and Again Jisun of Moho Movie and Michèle Ray Gavras and Alexandre Gavras of KG Productions, and govt produced by Miky Lee of CJ Group. CJ ENM bankrolled the movie.
