DHAHRAN: If you are keen to watch a sharp film about a 65-year-old Korean woman assassin, look no further than the aptly named “The Old Woman with the Knife.”
One of the most daring offerings at the recent 12th Saudi Film Festival in Dhahran, which had a special focus on Korean cinema, that late night showing certainly set the scene for viewers to leave into a dark night sky bathed in blood-tinged hope.
Directed and co-written by Min Kyu-dong, it stars the indelible Lee Hye-young, one of the most prominent South Korean actresses since the 1980s, now in her 60s and very much still in her prime.
The over two-hour film was adapted from the bestselling South Korean novel of the same name by award-winning author Gu Byeong-mo.
The visually stunning journey unfolds on a snowy Korean night in 1975.
