The 14th Udine Far East Film Festival in Italy has announced a retrospective of South Korean cinema entitled “The Darkest Decade: Korean Filmmakers in the 1970s”. Curated by Korean cinema expert Darcy PAQUET (Contributing Editor to <Korean Cinema Today>), the retrospective will feature ten films that have yet to be screened in the West.
 
The Udine festival stated that it is confident the retrospective “will show us how despite the difficult political and social environment, equally repressive and characterized by ferocious censorship, and not with standing the careers of several talented directors being abruptly suspended [...] several directors managed to remain active throughout the 1970s, and produced some of their most memorable works in this period.”
 
The festival will run April 20 – 28, 2012.