Vegetarian (film)

Vegetarian
Sundance film poster
Hangul
채식주의자
Revised RomanizationChaesikju-uija
McCune–ReischauerCh'aeshikchuŭija
Directed byLim Woo-Seong
Written byLim Woo-Seong
StarringChae Min-seo
Kim Hyun-Sung
Kim Yeo-jin
CinematographyKang Chang-bae
Edited byMun In-dae
Music byJeong Yong-jin
Production
company
Blue Tree Pictures
Distributed bySponge
Release dates
  • October 9, 2009 (2009-10-09) (Busan)
  • February 18, 2010 (2010-02-18) (South Korea)
Running time
113 minutes
CountrySouth Korea
LanguageKorean
Box office₩26,459,000[1]

Vegetarian (Korean: 채식주의자; Hanja: 菜食主義者; RR: Chaesikjuuija) is a 2009 South Korean erotic body horror drama film directed by Lim Woo-Seong based on the 2007 same-titled novel by Han Kang.[2] The film debuted at the 14th Busan International Film Festival on October 8, 2009, and was later released in South Korea on February 18, 2010. In January 2010, it was invited to the World Cinema Narrative Competition at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival.

Justin Chang, writing for Variety, said, "Body horror and body art are conjoined in the tastefully kinky" film, which is a "tonally extreme portrait of a woman who swears off meat before retreating into a literally vegetative state". He wrote that the film is "an audacious if borderline risible psychodrama".[3]

Cast

References

  1. ^ "KOFIC 영화관 입장권 통합전산망 :: 영화정보". Korean Film Council (in Korean). Retrieved October 21, 2016.
  2. ^ Mudge, James (June 23, 2012). "Vegetarian (2009) Movie Review". BeyondHollywood.com. Retrieved October 21, 2016.
  3. ^ Chang, Justin (February 1, 2010). "Review: 'Vegetarian'". Variety. Penske Media Corporation. Retrieved October 21, 2016.


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