Tommaso Tocci
The Age of Shadows (Kim Jee-woon, South Korea) — Special Presentations
By Tommaso Tocci | 09/14/2016 | Cinema Scope Online, TIFF 2016
By Tommasso Tocci A satisfying cloak-and-dagger thriller set in Japanese-occupied Korea during the 1920s, Kim Jee-woon’s The Age of Shadows betrays a kind of business-like approach to spy games, institutional and otherwise. With an unobstructed point of view that moves swiftly between the upper echelons of the Japanese police force and the busy Seoul shopfronts…
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