One of the more acclaimed Korean films in recent years, the fine people at ImaginAsian Films are bringing darkly comedic action thriller A Bloody Aria to DVD on February 26th and they've offered five copies of the DVD up for Twitch readers. For you chance all you need to do is sign up for the ImaginAsian news letter here and select 'Twitch' when you get to the 'Where did you hear about this' section ... why should you care? Well, my Fantasia cohort Mitch Davis is rather excited about this one. Here's what he said when it played Fantasia:
One of this year’s key Asian film discoveries, this bold, brilliant and wholly unconventional thriller is quite possibly the best thing to break out of South Korea since Sympathy For Mr. Vengeance and Memories of Murder. Our not-so-happy story begins with married, middle-aged music professor Park Young-sun taking his young student In-Jeong for a drive. He knows how much she looks up to him, and parks his car in a desolate stretch of countryside hoping to pressure her into some easy opportunistic sex. Things don’t go as smoothly as hoped for, and the lecherous professor quickly finds himself alone in his car, his student high-tailing it into the woods. He must now sit and wait for her return. Soon enough, there are sounds of movement nearby, but what he hears are not the noises of his student’s expected return in defeat. Instead, Park finds his car surrounded by a muddy group of thugs. It is unclear exactly why they’re in the mountains, but they’ve been beating the living hell out of a college kid in a canvas bag and they don’t appear to be the social types. Park’s approach to the situation is the decidedly wrong one to take…
You'll find both the Korean and US trailers embedded inthe Twitch Player below the break.
