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BEASTS CLAWING AT STRAWS

  • Director
    KIM Yong-hoon
  • Year
    2020
  • Nationality
    Korea
  • Genre
    Crime Noir
  • Status
    Release(February 19, 2020)
  • Starring
    JEON Do-yeon, JUNG Woo-sung
  • Running Time
    108min
  • Festival & Review
    • 2020 International Film Festival Rotterdam-Tiger Competition-Special Jury Award




    • SYNOPSIS
      Different desires of these lowlifes slowly gather around the money bag.

      The destinies of hard-luck lowlifes slowly converge and come crashing down: Jung-man barely gets by working at a sauna and taking care of his sick mother until he finds a bag full of cash in the locker room; Tae-young is in trouble after his girlfriend runs away with the money he borrowed from a loan shark. Soon, a dead body mysteriously turns up; Mi-ran, caught between her husband’s violence and a dead-end job as a bar hostess, she finds a young lover Jin-tae, who offers to kill her husband… And now their dog-eat-dog game starts.
    • DIRECTOR INFO
      • Director KIM Yong-hoon
         
        After building his filmography with short films and documentaries, marks director KIM Yong-hoon’s feature length directorial debut. He was applauded for details in production design and emotional sophistication in his cast’s performances. He’ll flex his strengths in .
         
    • MATERIAL