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January 25, 2006
MIIKE AND PANG ON THE WAY TO BERLIN
Two Asian directors are on their way to the Berlin Film Festival in a year where the fest is light on Asian films (but when Lee Young-Ae, SYMPATHY FOR LADY VENGEANCE, is on the jury). Takashi Miike's violent gay love story, BIG BANG LOVE - JUVENILE A, has been selected for the Panorama section and Pang Ho-cheung's story about a cop hooking up with a hooker who turns out to be his daughter, ISABELLA, has been selected for the festival as well.
Miike's BIG BANG LOVE - JUVENILE A is about a straight guy who works at a gay bar, gets molested by a customer and kills him. Then he goes to prison (which looks like one of the sets from Lars Von Trier's DOGVILLE) and starts a close friendship with another guy whom he winds up killing, too. It sounds more like a Kim Ki-Duk film than something from Takashi Miike, but it also looks like it could be fascinatingly offensive - like BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN but with more killing.
January 25, 2006 at 10:03 AM in News | Permalink
Comments
What Kim Ki-duk film does this sound like? Judging from the 4 I've seen, his world is resolutely heterosexual, although I'd like to see a gay remake of BAD GUY (perhaps directed by Gaspar Noe.)
Posted by: Steve | Jan 25, 2006 1:27:29 PM
To me it sounds like Kim Ki-Duk in the way it looks at the ways violence and self-loathing complicate romantic and emotional relationships. Reading the plot summary instantly brought to mind movies like COAST GUARD (although there's not much romance there, but a lot of violence and self-loathing) as well as BAD GUY.
Posted by: Grady Hendrix | Jan 25, 2006 1:47:12 PM
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