South Korea is nicer than this film implies

Rating: 4/10 (30 December 2010)

A very obscure Cannes prizewinner with lots of gore and incest and some fairly boring characters doing weirdly improbable things. Essentially a man is imprisoned for fifteen years in what looks like a private prison. On release he vows vengeance, and then discovers the man who had him imprisoned did so in revenge for something he, the first man, had done. Lots of arty camera-work, but nothing to make up for any credibility in the story.
What did not come over in translation was how the imprisonment worked: it appeared a private company would imprison people for money, but the mechanics of this stretched credibility.