Oldboy: the 20th anniversary – Exhibition
Introducing
To mark the 20th anniversary of OLD BOY, Cinema Galeries, in partnership with the Korean Cultural Center in Brussels, is hosting an exhibition focussed on Park Chan-wook’s cult film.
Exhibition 21.09 > 17.12
Open from Tuesday to Sunday
13-21h
Free entrance!
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2023 marks the twentieth anniversary of Oldboy (2003) by Park Chan-wook. A prominent South Korean modern classic, diverting from the domestic allegorical cinema of the past and entering a new arena that let go of the national and embraced the global. It went on to become the first from this nation to win the Cannes Grand Prix award in 2004. Cinema Galeries commemorates Oldboy’s vigentennial with the question: why does this film have importance within the metamorphosis of South Korean cinematic history? Topics include its divergence from Korean New Wave cinema, how in the early 2000s the birth of the internet, the first smartphone, and corresponding video game technologies influenced the film, as well as the recurring theme of emasculation in its predecessors embodied within Oldboy.
Introducing
To mark the 20th anniversary of OLD BOY, Cinema Galeries, in partnership with the Korean Cultural Center in Brussels, is hosting an exhibition focussed on Park Chan-wook’s cult film.
Exhibition 21.09 > 17.12
Open from Tuesday to Sunday
13-21h
Free entrance!
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From October 22nd to December 17th, 2023, Cinema Galeries, in partnership with the Korean Cultural Center, offers you an exhibition and a retrospective of the work of director Park Chan-wook, on the occasion of the 20th Anniversary of Old Boy. -
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