The Old Woman With The Knife
(Pagwa)
Min Kyu-dong
- 2025
- South Korea
- Thriller
- 2h02mn
- Original version with French subtitles
- Color
French premiere
Hornclaw, a 60 year old hitwoman not ready for retirement, belongs to an organisation aiming to get rid of the dregs of society. She will develop a strong and ambiguous relationship with Bullfight, a wild new recruit, who will upset her career plans…
If Hornclaw was just an old woman version of John Wick, she would already embark us into an efficient and atypical noir film. But that would be forgetting the acute sensitivity of the director of Memento Mori, who here turns a tense and intimate gaze at filiation, the decline of passing years, and the place left to the elderly in our societies. And what a brilliant idea to have cast the immense Lee Hye-young, Hong Sang Soo’s fetish actress, worlds away from action cinema, in a part that fits her like a glove!
Credits
- With : Lee Hye-young, Kim Sung-cheol, Shin Si-ah, Yeon Woo-jin, Kim Mu-yeol...
- Screenplay : Kim Dong-wan, Min Kyu-dong
- Photography : Lee Jae-woo
- Editing : Jung Ji-eun
- Music by : Kim Jun-seong
- Production : Min Jin-soo
