Lee Gyu-lee is a business writer at The Korea Times, focusing primarily on IT & telecommunications, the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy and KOTRA. Prior to this, she has covered a wide range of cultural news, from film, television and K-pop to lifestyle and fashion.
Crime action film 'Smugglers' invited to Toronto festival
A scene from the crime action movie “Smugglers” / Courtesy of NEW
By Lee Gyu-lee
By Lee Gyu-lee
The new crime action movie “Smugglers” has been invited to this year's Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), set to be held from Sept. 7 to Sept. 17 in Canada's largest city.
The film's distributor, NEW, announced that director Ryoo Seung-wan's latest film will be screening in the festival's Special Presentations section.
“(The movie) combines director Ryoo Seung-wan's signature action and unique humor, which draw in audiences,” Anita Lee, chief programming officer of TIFF, said in the statement.
Directed by Ryoo, who is known for helming the 2015 action film “Veteran,” the movie follows a group of “haenyeo,” or female divers ― played by Kim Hye-soo, Yum Jung-ah and Go Min-si ― in a small fishing town in the 1970s.
Their mundane life of collecting marine products to make ends meet turns upside down when they get involved in a high-stakes smuggling scheme.
The star-studded film, which was released on Wednesday, was also invited to the 76th Locarno Film Festival, as part of its midsummer movie event, Piazza Grande.
Along with “Smugglers,” director Hur Jin-ho's drama film “A Normal Family” and director Um Tae-hwa's blockbuster disaster film “Concrete Utopia” have also been invited to TIFF's Special Presentations section.