Beautiful, interesting, incredible cinema.
After a shooting in the DMZ leaves two North Korean military officers dead, a South Korean sergeant stands accused. With both sides offering radically different accounts, it’s up to a Swiss-Korean envoy to unravel the twisty truth.
Before he came to international attention for his Vengeance Trilogy, cult auteur Park Chan-wook revealed his talent with this fraught DMZ drama. Comic book compositions and a crackling energy done right, Joint Security Area tackles the charged subject of the border between North and South Korea.
After a shooting in the DMZ leaves two North Korean military officers dead, a South Korean sergeant stands accused. With both sides offering radically different accounts, it’s up to a Swiss-Korean envoy to unravel the twisty truth.
