Aknyeo

South Korea 2017, 144 min.

Korean with English and Czech subtitles

director: Jung Byung-gil

starring: Kim Ok-bin, Kim Seo-hyung, Sung Joon, Shin Ha-kyun, Jo Eun-ji

distributor: Next Entertainment World

Sook-hee has been taught to kill from an early age. She is promised freedom and a second chance for life by South Korea’s Intelligence Agency after ten years of being a sleeper agent and a contract killer. But two men appear unexpectedly in her life, bringing out secrets from her dark past.

After a time-tested series of action movies featuring a female protagonist, such as Nikita or Kill Bill, director Jung Byung-gil has taken a new course. By innovative action choreography, experimenting camera, and his disregard to genre conventions, he offers to the viewers a new action experience that was received with a standing ovation at the midnight screening at the Cannes Film Festival.