"Incessantly grim and pushing the three-hour mark, indie helmer Jung-bum Park's Alive (Sanda) is about as challenging a sophomore work as anyone could have dreamt up," begins Pierce Conran at Twitch. "And this from a man who debuted with the ferociously bleak The Journals of Musan (Musanigli), a tale of a socially awkward North Korean defector unable to fit into his new surroundings, and whose sole companion, a stray dog, meets a untimely end, leaving his helpless master to fend for himself." We're collecting more reviews as they come in from Locarno and Toronto. » - David Hudson...
- 9/12/2014
- Keyframe
"Incessantly grim and pushing the three-hour mark, indie helmer Jung-bum Park's Alive (Sanda) is about as challenging a sophomore work as anyone could have dreamt up," begins Pierce Conran at Twitch. "And this from a man who debuted with the ferociously bleak The Journals of Musan (Musanigli), a tale of a socially awkward North Korean defector unable to fit into his new surroundings, and whose sole companion, a stray dog, meets a untimely end, leaving his helpless master to fend for himself." We're collecting more reviews as they come in from Locarno and Toronto. » - David Hudson...
- 9/12/2014
- Fandor: Keyframe
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