Chan-wook Park is a wickedly assured visual storyteller. In fact, I’m not sure there’s anybody better at doing what he does. The South Korean director of “Oldboy” and “Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance” ...
A spider crawls up the leg of 18-year-old India Stoker (Mia Wasikowska) early in Park Chan-wook’s English-language debut, “Stoker,” and she regards it passively, intrigued. There’s a creepy intruder ...
Stoker explores the disturbing sexual awakening of an 18-year-old girl, India, through themes of violence and incest in a dark Gothic narrative. India's mother Evie, played by Nicole Kidman, views her ...
The psychological thriller was also produced by Ridley Scott.
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Brian Brooks is a Deadline contributor. Fox Searchlight’s Stoker just may bring some fresh air into a specialty field that’s been monopolized in 2013 on the money side by two titles, Quartet and Amour ...
There is one particular visual metaphor in Stoker, South Korean director Park Chan-wook's opulently gruesome English-language debut, that indicates its intentions so bawdily that the audience, or my ...
Last year, we told you how cinemagraphs — GIFs in which only a small part of a still photo is animated, creating an eerie effect — would become the hot new creative vehicle for advertisers. In March, ...