Barking Dogs Never Bite (Bong Joon-ho, 2000): BFI Southbank, NFT1, 6pm
This 4K presentation also screens on December 19th and is part of the the Golden Age of Korean Films season at BFI Southbank.
Time Out review:
This eloquent social comedy has a self-pitying professor hunting out the
mutt who's been disturbing his sleep. He locks the creature in a closet
in the basement of his apartment block and later stumbles across a
janitor with a taste for dog soup (dog lovers might want to give this
one a miss). The trouble is, he realises he put away the wrong hound.
Ironies multiply. His pregnant wife drives him crazy. He throws the
right dog from the roof of the building. His main rival for a top job is
beheaded in a drunken subway accident. His wife buys a poodle. And so
on. Beautifully directed, unsentimental and darkly funny.
Tom Charity
Here (and above) is the trailer.
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