Song Il-gon – Heroic Cinema https://www.heroic-cinema.com The guide to Asian movies in Australia Sat, 25 Dec 2010 00:38:10 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.5 18894642 Spider Forest (2004) https://www.heroic-cinema.com/reviews/spider-forest-2004/ Mon, 12 Mar 2007 15:33:31 +0000 http://www.heroic-cinema.com/reviews/spider-forest-2004/ This is a very complex film which has qualitites like the distorting mirror of legend: what you get out is a twisted reflection of what is in your soul. Some will proclaim it boring or confusing, and thus dismissable, but I think this would be a mistake. There’s a lot more here than meets the eye.

The film opens with a slow pan through a moonlit forest. As you might guess, the spindly trees are draped with soft webs, and … (read more)

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