Korean writer-director Kim Yong-hoon's debut feature 'Beasts Clawing at Straws' bowed in the competition at Rotterdam, the biggest film festival in the Netherlands. Read THR's review, which says the 'engagingly convoluted neo-noir has remake potential.'
, which looks set to hook audiences in its native Korea following a high-profile bow in the main competition at Rotterdam.
Overseas it will find welcoming berths at festivals receptive to audience-friendly genre fare; the adaptation of Sone Keisuke's Japanese novel also has considerable English-language remake appeal at a time when Korean cinema has never enjoyed such global attention. The presence of Jung Woo-sung in one of the ensemble's most prominent roles will also help box office prospects in author Sone's native country, where the actor is particularly popular. He's largely reactive here as customs official Tae-young: his girlfriend Yeon-hee has abruptly vanished, leaving him stuck with her large debt to violent loan-sharks.
In the film's opening moments the loot is discovered in a locker by downtrodden sauna-hotel employee Joong-man , who for various family-related reasons happens to be in particularly urgent need of money. Similarly cash-strapped is demure bar hostess Mi-ran , bankrupted by stock market speculations and suffering domestic abuse at the hands of her volatile husband.
— unsurprisingly, given Kim's inexperience — takes a while to establish its tone. There are some broad strokes applied in terms of score, acting and camerawork as the various plot strands unfold in a deliberately confusing manner.
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