Save the Green Planet (Jang Joon-hwan, 2003): BFI Southbank, NFT1, 5.50pm
This film, which also screens on November 30th, features a Q&A with the director, is part of the Golden Age of Korean Films season at BFI Southbank.
Chicago Reader review:
This genre-busting 2003 debut feature by writer-director Jang Jun-hwan
flopped in his native South Korea, where it was misleadingly pitched as a
date movie. Convinced the earth is under siege by extraterrestrials, a
troubled young man and his acrobat girlfriend abduct a corporate
executive they believe to be an undercover alien and set about torturing
him at a mountain hideaway; meanwhile an over-the-hill cop and an eager
rookie are closing in. Punk graphics and a snaking camera add zest to
the story, which is alternately heartbreaking, suspenseful, and darkly
funny.
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