Quiet Rage: The Fire and Finesse of Lee Chang-dong's Cinema

The films of Lee Chang-dong offer provocations for reflecting on the dangers of violence, the disempowerment wrought by disadvantage, the enigma and ennui of youth. From 1997's Green Fish to 2018's widely acclaimed Burning, the oeuvre of this Korean novelist-turned-director quietly brims with cerebral rigour and subdued style, writes Anthony Carew.

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Asian cinema, South Korea, Steven Yeun, Peppermint Candy, Oasis, Secret Sunshine, Poetry, observational, Christianity, modernity, urban, rural, intellectual disability, rape, murder, grief, intergenerational.