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Sympathy for Lady Vengeance
Lee Geum-ja has spent the last 13 years in prison for a murder she didn't commit. Now she is back, seeking vengeance on the man truly responsible for it. With the help of fellow inmates and reunited with her daughter, she gets closer and closer to her goal.
13 November 1964
2 January 1988, South Korea
15 December 1973, Onyang, South Korea
11 October 1960, South Korea
22 January 1962, Seoul, South Korea
25 May 1938
August 30, 2009
Talks Sin and Salvation while spending all his creative energies on debasing gags and sneering wide-angle shotsJuly 10, 2007
in Lady Vengeance, revenge is ultimately a shabby, sordid business that leaves everybody soiled and in need of purification - or at least of a pie in the face.June 29, 2006
The films strain to present some kind of moral compass, a philosophy of revenge's human toll. But in the end, their sadistic glee in creative bloodshed trumps all.June 24, 2006
Pound-of-flesh cinema, you might say.June 30, 2006
Squanders plot impetus, and even with constant crosscutting it's lethargically paced, slogging through soap-operatic back stories and maddening irrelevancies.June 23, 2006
Apart from Park's impressive but ultimately hollow style (his images are impeccably composed and visually inventive), Lady Vengeance is still an exercise in wretched excess (though less extreme than its predecessors).June 29, 2006
Because I am a connoisseur of art cinema, my feelings about Lady Vengeance are complex. Some parts I liked; some parts I didn't.April 15, 2009
Park Chanwook works his Grand Guignol sense of humor against Korean social conditions to effect a call-and-response logic to the metaphoric and literal things that happen onscreen.August 06, 2006
... as brutal as it is beautiful.June 21, 2007
The story is delightfully multilayered, the look stylish, and the horror component top notch.