ALEX FARBA

By Alex Deleon

I just thought it was mostly boring with a  tacked on violent ending to relieve  the preceding two hours of tedium.  With crashingly Uninteresting characters all around in an achingly Uninteresting picture. 

But maybe I was being too critical because I was basing my lack of interest  on my direct experience with Koreans having spent a good portion of seven years in Seoul where the picture was filmed.

Among far far far far far Better foreign language pictures were at least  2:

 -- that weren't even nominated!

From Germany.

SYSTEM CRASHER, About a very wayward uncontrollable female child in Germany

 with a Best Actress worthy performance by a nine year old actress ...

and

AN OFFICER AND A SPY. Polanski's masterful  reconsideration of the Dreyfuss affair, in France.

This kind of appalling ignorance of international cinema only to be expected from the Geritol fueled Academy Award selectors.

Alex,

Yerevan