Chan-Wook Park

There’s a Korean saying...if somebody [who] has achieved everything is saying something to somebody who is very downtrodden and tries to encourage him by saying, 'Well, if you do it, it’ll happen,' there’s no greater mockery than this.

The director's Fincher-esque style may finally beat out intellectual substance, but it's a fair fight, grounded in the existential horror of essential emotional truths.

Park pays most of his attention to visceral style, but he sketches in enough about his characters to make them frighteningly relatable.

Delivers more than the filmmaker ever has before...richer themes and more skillful audience involvement.

A conspicuously crafty tale...Park’s erotic thriller...with its story that, not coincidentally, deals with fetishes—never feels lifelessly premeditated; rather, we realize, early and often, that we are in very sure hands.