▶ Montage
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Director JEONG Geun-seop | Starring UHM Jeong-hwa, KIM Sang-kyung and SONG Young-chang | Genre Human Thriller | Running Time: 120 Minutes | Rating 15+ | Release Date: May 16th
▶ synopsis
15 years ago, a kidnapper disappeared. The kidnapper leaves a rose at the crime scene five days before the expiration of the statute of limitations. Several days later, a similar crime to the kidnapping case 15 years before occurs. The story unfolds around a grandfather who lost his granddaughter before his eyes, a mother who hunted down the criminal for 15 years and a detective who bet his life for 15 years.
Positive stories about
Montage have passed by word of mouth thanks to its well constructed scenario even before the media reported about the film. Audiences who saw this film in previews gave high scores to it in recognition of its realistic story and outstanding acting. “I liked director
JEONG Keun-seob and the scenario of the film,” SONG said. “I could not believe that the scenario was written by a new director. “I believed that we would create an excellent thriller that could appeal to movie fans,” said UHM, showing her trust in the director. KIM played a detective ten years before in
Memories of Murder. “I was dying to arrest the criminal in
Memories of Murder. I thought that I would arrest the criminal in
Montage.”
The most attractive quality of Montage is its climax. The film moves between the past and the present around the case 15 years ago and the criminal who reappears. The stories of the three heroes and heroines who must catch the criminal are interesting enough to draw in a viewer. The film will fascinate audiences with unique suspense that is different from that of existing thrillers.
Commercially successful actors and actresses banded together for the production of Montage. UHM Jeong-hwa contributed to the commercial success of Haeundae and Dancing Queen a great deal. In this film UHM plays the mother who lost a daughter 15 years ago. KIM Sang-kyung plays the detective who gets his hands on an unsolved case 15 years before. KIM’s previous films include box office hits such as Memories of Murder, May 18 and The Tower. SONG Young-chang who starred in Deranged, Nameless Gangster: Rules of the Time, The Man from Nowhere and The Good, the Bad and the Weird, plays the grandfather who lost a granddaughter due to a copy cat crime that occurred 15 years after the first kidnapping case.Positive stories about Montage have passed by word of mouth thanks to its well constructed scenario even before the media reported about the film. Audiences who saw this film in previews gave high scores to it in recognition of its realistic story and outstanding acting. “I liked director JEONG Keun-seob and the scenario of the film,” SONG said. “I could not believe that the scenario was written by a new director. “I believed that we would create an excellent thriller that could appeal to movie fans,” said UHM, showing her trust in the director. KIM played a detective ten years before in Memories of Murder. “I was dying to arrest the criminal in Memories of Murder. I thought that I would arrest the criminal in Montage.”The most attractive quality of Montage is its climax. The film moves between the past and the present around the case 15 years ago and the criminal who reappears. The stories of the three heroes and heroines who must catch the criminal are interesting enough to draw in a viewer. The film will fascinate audiences with unique suspense that is different from that of existing thrillers.
