Hollywood Reporter’s Maggie Lee gives us the rundown on THIRST, the new vampire-romance from director Park Chan-wook (THREE EXTREMES, LADY VENGEANGE), which screened at Cannes last week.
Park takes his famed eroticization of violence, pain and cruelty to new, feverish heights, and garnishes it with deliciously sadistic gallows humor. Those who thrive on gore, twisted sexuality and brutish handling of women can drink their fill from this film. More serious arthouse critics, however, may balk at the script’s soapy excesses, as well as the tonal discordance of yoking the horror-fantasy genre to a love tragedy with classical, literary trappings.
Read more about the film here.