closing night

hope

After THE CHASER, THE YELLOW SEA and THE WAILING he returns at the top of his game: HOPE by Na Hong-jin is adrenaline translated directly into images. For the first hour, it leaves us speechless; in the second half, we begin to question our own sanity. Surely not, you think to yourself. He wouldn’t dare. But Na does dare! He created an electrifying horror thriller about an alien invasion of the third kind. One death-defying alien spectacle after another unfolds on the screen, featuring sheer, immaculate action, including an unrelenting, utterly unbelievable 60-minute sequence that drives breathlessly forward as it tears a tiny fishing village apart with ruthless precision.