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Lady Vengeance

Thriller | 2005 | 115 min |

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"With this thrilling final installment of his revenge-cycle (including Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance and Old Boy), cult director Park Chanwook has made his finest movie to date. Geum-ja, or “Lady Vengeance” (Lee Yeong-ae), is a pale beauty who was wrongly imprisoned at 19 for the murder of a small boy. Fourteen years later, she is released and wants to begin living a good life—which means, naturally, making the real killer pay. As always, Park displays his talent for capturing subjective experience and flaunts the storytelling panache that has often gotten him compared to Quentin Tarantino. But in its second half, the movie pushes beyond its initial Kill Bill-style exuberance and takes on enormous emotional force. Rather than exulting in spectacular violence, this dazzling film becomes an exploration of the spiritual price of vengeance, however justified it might seem. Park makes us ask: Is it possible to atone for one sin by committing another?"

(New York Film Festival 2005)

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Eye Weekly

”Sensational Korean filmmaker Park follows the double-punch of Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance and Oldboy with the final instalment of his "vengeance trilogy". Lady Vengeance is far more complicated and difficult than either of its predecessors, but it has the same operatic scale and stunning cinematic assurance, with Lee's riveting performance drawing us ever further into the tangled story. Every time we think we know what she's capable of doing, she shows us we have no frickin\' clue. The only question is whether we can stand to follow her.”

Variety

”Revenge has a distinctly female face in South Korean helmer Park Chan-wook\'s darkly humorous "Sympathy for Lady Vengeance," the much-awaited third segseg in a trilogy on retributions that match the shocking original crimes. Like "Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance" (2002) and "Old Boy" (2003), "Lady" is a wildly inventive, highly cinematic director's showcase.”

New York Film Festival 2005

”With this thrilling final installment of his revenge-cycle (including Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance and Old Boy), cult director Park Chanwook has made his finest movie to date. Geum-ja, or “Lady Vengeance” (Lee Yeong-ae), is a pale beauty who was wrongly imprisoned at 19 for the murder of a small boy. Fourteen years later, she is released and wants to begin living a good life—which means, naturally, making the real killer pay. As always, Park displays his talent for capturing subjective experience and flaunts the storytelling panache that has often gotten him compared to Quentin Tarantino. But in its second half, the movie pushes beyond its initial Kill Bill-style exuberance and takes on enormous emotional force. Rather than exulting in spectacular violence, this dazzling film becomes an exploration of the spiritual price of vengeance, however justified it might seem. Park makes us ask: Is it possible to atone for one sin by committing another?\”

KoreanFilm.org

”Lady Vengeance is clearly a work of a major artist, evolving before our eyes and improving his finesse. When Park is on top of his myriad tools of cinematic expression, the results have always been breathtaking and it is no exception here.”