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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Jake Coyle

Q&A: Park Chan-wook on love, genre and 'Decision to Leave'

2022 Invision

Long before Bong Joon Ho's “Parasite” triumphed at the Oscars and “Squid Game” circled the globe, Park Chan-wook was astonishing worldwide audiences with his sumptuously stylistic, outrageously violent and devilishly elaborate vision of Korean cinema.

His latest, “Decision to Leave,” is in some ways more restrained than Park's previous films. It lacks the brutal violence of “Oldboy” (2003) or the eroticism of “The Handmaiden” (2016). But it might be his most devastating.

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