Asshole
A high-energy example of a rarefied genre, Bengali thrash-metal rap musical Gandu grabs auds by the throat and gradually works its way down. Dystopic/disaffected-youth story eventually segues into sequences of hardcore porn, which will limit exposure for what is, all told, a promising display of talent from helmer Q.
(...) Predominantly shot in black-and-white, Gandu shifts, "Oz"-like, into color during the title subject's elaborate deflowering by a hooker who displays no inhibitions at all. Neither does Q, for that matter, and his Gandu seems guaranteed to win over fans exhausted with the tried and true.
John Anderson, Variety
The beautiful black and white cinematography, timely editing and pitch-perfect use of both score and soundtrack give Asshole its wings. Like drinking a refreshing blend of both Jim Jarmusch and Larry Clark, Asshole (...) has all the makings of being this generations sex and drugs and rock n’ roll rap.
Adam Cuttler, Filmbalaya.com
Original title: Gandu
Night fishing
Night Fishing centres around a fisherman (Park regular Oh Kwang-rok) who reels in a fish that transforms into a young woman once touching land (actor/pop star Lee Jung-hyun, in a great performance). She begins talking to him of his long-lost daughter, and it only gradually becomes apparent that she is a shaman acting as a medium between the land of the living and the dead.
Switching back and forth between black-and-white and colour, and featuring a mesmerising soundtrack by UhUhBoo Project (Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance), the film strikes a more sober and difficult tone than many of Park’s genre-influenced films.
[T]he film is ostensibly a showcase of the iPhone 4’s technical capabilities, although the filmmakers strapped lenses onto their phones and put the resulting footage through extensive postproduction work. At any rate, the end result is visually sumptuous and artistically bold (...).
Darcy Paquet, Screen International
Duration: 120 min (sis.alkukuvan)
Dialogue: Bengali
Subtitles: English
Age limit: K18
