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- Toronto Nabs Korean Veterans and Genre Newcomer
- by Pierce Conran / Aug 13, 2015
- HONG Sangsoo, RYOO Seung-wan and KWON Oh-kwang Headed to TIFF
A trio of Korean films, representing very different sides of the industry, were announced this week as part of the second wave of the 40th Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF). Screening in the Masters section will be HONG Sangsoo’s latest film Right Now, Wrong Then, while RYOO Seung-wan’s current chart-topper Veteran and newcomer KWON Oh-kwang’s Collective Invention have both secured a berth in the Vanguard program.The 17th film by respected auteur HONG, Right Now, Wrong Then stars KIM Min-hee (in a HONG film for the first time) and JUNG Jae-young, as well as YU Jun-sang and KO Asung, also a HONG neophyte. The film premieres this week in competition at the Locarno International Film Festival. The invitation marks HONG’s fourth consecutive appearance at TIFF, following In Another Country (2012), Our Sunhi (2013) and Hill of Freedom last year, and ninth selection overall.The Vanguard section, which last invited a Korean film in 2013 (YEON Sang-ho’s The Fake), this year features a brace of films from the peninsula. Among those are RYOO Seung-wan’s kinetic action-thriller Veteran, starring HWANG Jung-min, which opened to rave reviews this past week in Korea and is commanding the charts, and the high concept mutation comedy Collective Invention from first time director KWON Oh-kwang. The film features PARK Bo-young, who was last seen at Toronto in 2012’s A Werewolf Boy.With still some sections to be revealed, this year’s 40th TIFF will run over September 10-20.
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