킬링 로맨스 - Killing Romance movie review
Directed by Lee Won Suk
Image taken from https://www.imdb.com/title/tt27304839/
Fantasia Film Festival is known for its incredible movie line-ups and world premieres. This was the case for Killing Romance, a film that takes the common societal clichés and experiences, and presents them in the most ridiculously smart way, mixed in with humorous dialogue that had the entire auditorium burst into laughter throughout the showing.
The film introduces us to a very beautiful, although questionably talented, actress (Hwang, Yeo-rae) who, after years of very successful commercials, flops at the box office with her latest film. This makes her decide to take a step back from the world of entertainment and go to a far way island. There she meets the chaebol, Jon Na, who whimsically flatters his way into her heart and proposes marriage. After years of an exhaustingly fake and restrictive marriage, the couple return to Seoul where Yeo-rae, drained by the fake life and love she had endured for so long, decides she no longer wants to be married.
From there on we see comical, over the top, absurd scenarios that underline sad realities many couples in similar situations may experience. The script brilliantly tackles some well-known aspects of Korean society from marriage to school admissions to being a chaebol, in this never-before-seen mise-en-scène.
I truly enjoyed the film and I hope you will get the chance to see it soon.
Thank you to the Korean Cultural Center for bringing this film to Montreal for its first ever world premiere. I really hope it will be as successful in other cities as it was here at the Fantasia Film Festival.
Thank you as well for the lovely gifts made available to the public who participated in small activities after the movie.
Photo taken by Corina Sferdenschi
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