OPENING NIGHT PRESENTED BY KBFD-TV
NOMINATED FEATURE DIRECTOR AND CAST IN ATTENDANCE
THE FRONT LINE
GO-JI-JUN UNITED STATES PREMIERE THURSDAY, OCT. 13 | 8:00 PM | REGAL DOLE | $15 MEMBERS, $20 GENERAL PUBLIC SOUTH KOREA | KOREAN WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES | 120 M
DIRECTOR: Hun Jang SCREENWRITER: Sang-yeon Park PRODUCERS: Hyun-cheol Kim, Woo-jung Lee CINEMATOGRAPHER: Woo-hyung Kim CAST: Ha-kyun Shin, Ko Soo, Je-hun Lee, Chang-seok Ko, Seung-soo Ryu, David Lee
The 60th anniversary of the outbreak of the Korean War last year, chiming with renewed exchanges of fire between the capitalist South and the communist North, spurred several new Korean films--of which THE FRONT LINE is both the best and the most successful. Scripted by the writer of JSA and skillfully directed by Jang Hun, it offers a classically hellish picture of front-line warfare but turns several of the cliches of war movies inside-out.
Most of the film is set on one (fictional) hill which has been captured and recaptured by both sides, with considerable loss of life each time. The always excellent Shin Ha-gyun (SAVE THE GREEN PLANET!) plays a young officer sent to the area to investigate a possible spy and what looks like a sinister case of “friendly fire.” The surprises awaiting him
include a reunion with an old friend he believed dead, several run-ins with a crack North Korean sniper, rife indiscipline and insubordination... and a surprising kind of fraternization between the two sides.
The story climaxes with the signing of the armistice, and with what happens in the 12 hours before it comes into effect. Aided by a fine cast and superb period production design, Jang Hun here hits the premier rank of Korean directors. No surprise that THE FRONT LINE is Korea’s nominee for the Best Foreign Film Oscar. –Tony Rayns
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