{"id":14380,"date":"2016-10-04T15:18:38","date_gmt":"2016-10-04T19:18:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=14380"},"modified":"2016-10-04T17:59:59","modified_gmt":"2016-10-04T21:59:59","slug":"not-so-nice-north-korea-part-2-the-lovers-and-the-despot-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=14380","title":{"rendered":"Not-so-nice North Korea: Part 2 &#8211; The Lovers and the Despot (2016)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-14382\" src=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/LoversAndTheDespot_featured.jpg\" alt=\"LoversAndTheDespot_featured\" width=\"263\" height=\"197\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/LoversAndTheDespot_featured.jpg 320w, https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/LoversAndTheDespot_featured-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 263px) 100vw, 263px\" \/>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 <a href=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=10755\"><strong>The Interview<\/strong><\/a> (2014), a deliberate comedy and satire.<\/p>\n<p>Not so with <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=14374\">The Lovers and the Despot<\/a><\/strong>, currently playing in Toronto at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/boxoffice.hotdocs.ca\/WebSales\/pages\/info.aspx?evtinfo=54669~fff311b7-cdad-4e14-9ae4-a9905e1b9cb0&amp;epguid=6395d239-7dd9-47d4-a22f-81a783873e12&amp;\" target=\"window\">The\u00a0Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema<\/a>, a documentary\u00a0packed with the type of intrigue redolent of a classic Cold War thriller.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll follow up with a related doc on North Korea &#8211; the fascinating <strong>Under the Sun<\/strong> (2015), new on DVD this week from Icarus Films &#8211; 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&#8217;t be rebuffed.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mark R. Hasan<\/strong>, Editor<br \/>\n<strong>KQEK.com<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Review of The Lovers and the Despot, the surreal life-imitates-art story of South Korean director Shin Sang-ok and award-winning film star Choi Eun-hee, both kidnapped by North Korea\u2019s Kim Jong-il, currently playing at the Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14392,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[2562,2563,4675,4671],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/LoversAndTheDespot_featured_a.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8nuyW-3JW","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14380"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14380"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14414,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14380\/revisions\/14414"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}