Watch Park Chan-wook Discuss Decision to Leave
Director Park Chan-wook discusses Decision to Leave with film critic Lee Dong-jin. A Korean-language interview about filmmaking, misunderstandings, and craft that English speakers rarely get to see.
A director and a critic
Director Park Chan-wook sits with critic Lee Dong-jin on Piarchia to talk Decision to Leave. They cover filmmaking, misunderstandings about Park's work, and how he builds a film. Park is the director of Oldboy, The Handmaiden, and Decision to Leave. The interview is in Korean and runs a little over an hour.
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The YouTube video is embedded directly from the official source. The first 30 seconds of captions can be displayed in English, Spanish, or Portuguese.
Source: Lee Dong-jin's Piarchia, featuring director Park Chan-wook. Video is in Korean.