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Oldboy

Oldboy

Park Chan-wook


  • Country: South Korea
  • Year: 2003
  • Language: Korean
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  • Runtime: 120 min.

Winner of the Grand Prix at the 2004 Cannes film festival, Park Chan-wook's hyperkinetic revenge thriller ushered the fiendishly inventive Korean genre cinema into the global spotlight.

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screening times

    • Friday October 8
    • 10:30:00 PM
    • Tiff Bell LightBox 3
    • Sunday October 31
    • 9:00:00 PM
    • Tiff Bell LightBox 3

Note: indicates Premium Screening.

official description

Winner of the Grand Prix at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival, Park Chan-wook's hyperkinetic revenge thriller ushered the fiendishly inventive Korean genre cinema into the global spotlight. On a dark and stormy night an ordinary man, Oh Dae-su (Choi Min-sik), is kidnapped and inexplicably imprisoned in a tiny room for fifteen years. Finally freed by his unseen, anonymous captor, the revenge-hungry Oh finds himself enmeshed in an even larger and more sadistic web. A sweeping crescendo of savage violence punctuated by squirm-inducing acts of mutilation—the unfortunate fate of a live octopus is already cinema legend—Oldboy treads the delicate line between art and exploitation with ferocious intelligence and gleefully ostentatious high style.

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