Shin Su-Won – Heroic Cinema https://www.heroic-cinema.com The guide to Asian movies in Australia Tue, 03 Sep 2013 01:39:57 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.4 18894642 Pluto (2012) https://www.heroic-cinema.com/reviews/pluto-2012/ Sun, 01 Sep 2013 10:01:21 +0000 http://www.heroic-cinema.com/?post_type=reviews&p=11328 Last year’s Korean Film Festival in Australia (KOFFIA) brought us three very different films that shone a light on the pressure (shading towards the horror, in some cases) of high school in South Korea: the harrowing true story Silenced, the wistful, nuanced drama Bleak Night and the snarling animated film The King of Pigs.

This year they have programmed Pluto, another feature film that takes the pressure-cooker environment of the final years of high school as … (read more)

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