Park Chan-wook: 'Hitchcock's Vertigo Runs Through My Veins'

“This is fucking cool!”

By receiving the prize for directing at Cannes last May, Park Chan-wook let go a little.

When he wants, the South Korean filmmaker can make the effort to speak English.

At 58, he is also able to come out of his reserve.

, a brilliant exercise in Hitchcockian style, is nevertheless his most restrained film, far from the violence and excesses that made his reputation (

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) When we meet him in Cannes at the Two days before the closing ceremony, he speaks Korean and is very polite.

LE FIGARO.- You talk about

Park CHAN-WOOK.

- Now that I'm a little older, I wanted to make a film for mature viewers, who already have some experience of life.

I wanted to capture very subtle feelings.

My characters don't express their emotions...

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