Here’s something to be excited about: Park Chan-wook is back! The legendary Korean filmmaker – behind Oldboy, and The Handmaiden, and Decision To Leave, to name but a handful of his masterpieces – is returning with a new film, No Other Choice, after briefly turning to TV for The Sympathizer. And, fittingly for the filmmaker behind the thematically-linked Vengeance Trilogy (that’s Sympathy For Mr. Vengeance, and Lady Vengeance, sandwiched either side of Oldboy), his latest looks to be a tale of jealousy, rage, and murder – a thriller with blackly comic elements. Check out the teaser:
There’s no official synopsis for No Other Choice yet, but it’s based on Donald Westlake’s novel The Ax – in which a man who finds himself cut loose after a lengthy employment resorts to desperate measures when he struggles to get a new job. In the lead role of Man-soo is Lee Byung-hun, who last worked with Director Park on his debut proper, 2000’s Joint Security Area.
Hopefully, we may get eyes on No Other Choice before the end of the year – it’ll get its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival in late August / early September, and is hitting Korean cinemas in September. UK audiences will see the film courtesy of Mubi, who also released Decision To Leave, though a date is not yet set. Here’s hoping one gets announced before anyone turned vengeful.
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