Guillermo del Toro lavished praise on Korean filmmakers Bong Joon Ho and Park Chan-wook during a press conference at the Busan International Film Festival, drawing cultural parallels between Korea and Mexico while discussing his film “Frankenstein.”
“I’m very in awe of director Bong and director Park, because they bring the chaos, the ridiculous, the sublime, the poetic and the horrible, all in the same movie,” del Toro said, singling out Bong’s “Memories of Murder” as exemplary of Korean cinema’s unique voice. “It’s not an American procedural about a crime — it’s an existential, deep meditation and an imperfect investigation by imperfect police that themselves are corrupt.”
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