With a single dessert and just two glasses of wine our bill was kept in check - but the effort of doing so was not much fun
Babbo
Film
This is a film with beautiful performances and a visual style that urges you towards reflection
Bright Star
Theatre
Although the first half of Kwei-Armah’s production is pacy, funny and intelligent, the energy level then drops off
Seize The Day
I loved this film from start to finish. Take the girlfriend, tell your mum - I'd see it again tomorrow and will buy the dvd.
I saw this last night and can't remember the last time I was so moved in the theatre.
I have been to many of London's so-called best Japanese restaurants and none have been as good as the food that I've had at Aqua Kyoto
London,
Derek Malcolm's rating
Reader rating
Dir: Won Shin-yun.
Cast: Lee Byuong-jun, Cha Ye-ryun, Han Suk-kyu
Description: Music professor Young-sun intends to have his wicked way with talented former student In-jeong, forcing himself on her during a drive in the countryside. Thankfully, the young woman escapes his clutches, only to run into a violent gang, who delight in playing mind games with their victims. Unable to call for help, Young-sun and In-jeong battle for survival, praying for escape from their hellish ordeal.
Country: S KOREA. 2006. 115mins
Shin-yun Won’s weird film proves something about Korean society — but I’m not quite sure what. It has a lecherous music professor driving his new Mercedes to Seoul with a pretty young opera singer. She runs away when he stops to get fresh with her and he is then set upon by a group of country bumpkin thugs who already have a boy tied up in a sack.
Sadistic games follow, combining a kind of dark humour with vicious games between tormentors and victims. It all looks like Michael Haneke-lite but, as a comment upon the fact that people tamed by violence tend to promote it when given half a chance, it has its grimly amusing merits
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