International Film Festival Preview: Memories of Murder
- Date:
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Thursday, January 16, 2025
- Time:
- 7 - 9 p.m.
- Location:
Wortmann Ballroom
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International Film Festival Preview: Memories of Murder
The first film of this year's International Film Series is Bong Joon Ho's masterpiece, "Memories of Murder," a 2003 murder mystery.
Wortmann Ballroom
Teresa Gereaux, gereaux@roanoke.edu false MM/DD/YYYYThe first film of this year's International Film Series is Bong Joon Ho's masterpiece, "Memories of Murder," a 2003 murder mystery. In his breakthrough second film, Bong showed his mastery of the police procedural while fully reimagining 1980s South Korea. Combining a gripping procedural with a social portrait of uber-misogynistic officialdom in 1980s Korea, Bong fashions a haunting journey into ever-deepening darkness that begins as black-comic satire and ends as a shattering encounter with the abyss.