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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.
July 7, 1961 in Jaeju-do, South Korea
30 May 1974, Seoul, South Korea
11 October 1960, South Korea
13 November 1964
15 June 1968, Taegu, North Gyeongsang Province, South Korea
27 August 1962, South Korea
5 August 1983, Seoul, South Korea
4 January 1982, South Korea
22 January 1962, Seoul, South Korea
17 January 1967, Gim-hae, South Gyeongsang Povince, South Korea
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.June 21, 2007
The story is delightfully multilayered, the look stylish, and the horror component top notch.June 24, 2006
Pound-of-flesh cinema, you might say.August 30, 2009
Talks Sin and Salvation while spending all his creative energies on debasing gags and sneering wide-angle shotsJune 30, 2006
Squanders plot impetus, and even with constant crosscutting it's lethargically paced, slogging through soap-operatic back stories and maddening irrelevancies.July 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 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
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.August 06, 2006
... as brutal as it is beautiful.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.