Andrew Welch

Earlier this week, I wrote an article for the Dallas Observer on OldBoy and Lady Vengeance, two films by South Korean filmmaker, Park Chan-wook. I did the best I could with it but it didn’t have the specificity I wanted it to have. I’d like to correct that here by noting two moments–one from each film–that encapsulate […]

Holy Motors touched a nerve. Void of almost any exposition, it seems designed to provoke. We know only what we see: A man named Oscar (Denis Lavant) travels through Paris in a white limo, changing identities and stopping at one place after another to act out in bizarre, sometimes disturbing ways. We don’t know why, […]