8 Days - December 07, 2017

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SOURCE: CINEMATOGRAPH FILM EXHIBITORS ASSOCIATION

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8 DAYS | 43

BY DOUGLAS TSENG

South Korea, 1980. German
reporter Jürgen Hinzpeter
(Avengers: Age of Ultron’s Thomas
Kretschmann) hires a cash-strapped
cabbie (The Host’s Song Kang-Ho,
brilliant and reliable as usual)
to drive him to Gwangju, where
he hopes to expose the military
government’s brutal crackdown
on the pro-democracy protests.

STARRING Song Kang-Ho, Ryu Jun-Yeol, Thomas Kretschmann DIRECTED BY Jang Hoon

Madame (M18)

Starring Toni Collette, Harvey Keitel |

Directed by Amanda Sthers

Screwball comedy about an

estranged American expat couple

(Toni Collette and Harvey Keitel) in

Paris getting caught in their maid’s

(Pedro Almodóvar regular Rossy de

Palma) complicated love life.

Serpent (NC16)

Starring Tom Ainsley, Sarah Dumont |

Directed by Amanda Evans

Thriller about a husband and wife

whose romantic getaway in the

woods takes a disastrous turn

when they’re trapped in a tent with

a deadly snake. Now where’s Bear

Grylls when you need him...

Breaking news:

Ryu Jun-Yeol

and Thomas

Kretschmann.

Coco

Justice League

Wonder

Thor: Ragnarok

Daddy’s Home 2

Murder on the Orient Express

The Star

A Bad Moms Christmas

Roman J Israel

Three Billboards Outside

Ebbing, Missouri

Justice League

Ah Boys to Men 4

Coco

Thor: Ragnarok

Pokémon The Movie: I

Choose You!

The Promise

Manhunt

The Golden Monk

Battle of the Sexes

Wind River

does, however,

have one weak link: An exciting but

superfluous climactic car chase

which is indebted more to James

Bond than to history. Then again,

it’s a minor grouse.

Getting into the besieged city

is tough, but getting out is even

tougher, especially after Hinzpeter

has gotten what he came for. The

historical piece — South Korea’s

official entry for the Foreign

Language Film Oscar race — is a

riveting political thriller-cum-buddy

road flick, one fraught with peril,

sorrow and unlikely humour. It

A Taxi Driver (PG13)

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