Not-so-nice North Korea: Part 2 – The Lovers and the Despot (2016)
Sometimes life imitates art in the strangest of circumstances, and the weird tale of a South Korean director and a movie star kidnapped by Kim Jong-il to boost the local film industry sounds like a follow-up story from the makers of The Interview (2014), a deliberate comedy and satire.
Not so with The Lovers and the Despot, currently playing in Toronto at The Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema, a documentary packed with the type of intrigue redolent of a classic Cold War thriller.
I’ll follow up with a related doc on North Korea – the fascinating Under the Sun (2015), new on DVD this week from Icarus Films – but do check out the review, and try and catch this surreal cinematic tale of abduction, ego, and a deal with the Devil that couldn’t be rebuffed.
Mark R. Hasan, Editor
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