Saturday, August 17, 2013

Thirst

Park Chan-wook's vampire film. Like Oldboy and Sympathy for Lady Vengeance, brutally violent, physically as well as psychologically, and like those others, supremely stylish - stark and, at times, strikingly beautiful. But, also like those others, somehow not wholly satisfying; perhaps too much the intellectual and cinematic exercise, with not quite the depth that could have elevated it beyond that.