We saw "Lady Vengeance" last night; third film in the Park Chan-Wook revenge trilogy. It was spattered with visual tours-de-force: The initial gaggle of Santas waiting forlornly in the snow outside a cleanly functional prison; the dank and dusty curtain getting yanked across in a cloud of dead skin to illuminate the deserted school where the final, hopelessly drawn-out murder occurs; the regular close-ups of the pearl-esque, opalescent Geum-Ja. The tone veers wildly from pitch-black comedy ("do you lose interest when women do... this?"), bleakly sparse and suggestive atmospherics, long shots of half-dark stairwells, leading directly to bizarre non-sequiturs and incomprehension (in particular Geum Ja's arrival, blank and blunt ("Yes, I'm thinking about killing someone else"), at her probation job to cheerfully aggressive, sepia and unshowy prison violence.
Incoherent, but incredible.
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