Thirst

Park Chan-wook's funny and erotic vampire tale takes on issues of morality and mortality.

Are you hungering for that rare vampire movie with serious intellectual heft, ravishing undead, biting passion and a healthy splash of irony as well as iron in all that spilled red blood? Wait no longer, Korean auteur Park Chan-wook's "Thirst" should satisfy. Though the subject is vampires, this is not a horror film, at least not in any of the traditional ways we think of horror with its thrills and chills, shrieks and shocks. Instead, Park has created a rumination on morality and mortality that is not at all deadly, but funny and profound and at times intensely erotic. [...]

di Betsy Sharkey, articolo completo (4166 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The Los Angeles Times 31 luglio 2009