The President's Last Bang

Name: The President's Last Bang
Genre: Drama, History, Comedy, Crime
Released: October 14, 2005
Duration: 102 min
Rating: 68

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Kino International | Release Date: October 14, 2005

Summary: On October 26th, 1979, the president of South Korea was assassinated at his own dinner table by the head of the KCIA. This is the story of that fateful night. (Kino International)

Director: Sang-soo Im

Genre(s): Drama, History, Comedy, Crime

Runtime: 102 min

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Sean Axmaker

The funniest film you'll see this year about a political assassination. Read full review

Noel Murray

Though The President's Last Bang is undeniably dense-with more than a dozen significant characters-the particulars aren't too tough to understand. Read full review

Scott Foundas

This meticulously well-made picture is disarmingly funny at times - not least during the ballet of bloody absurdity that is the assassination itself - but also subdued and straight-faced, with one eye planted on 1979 and the other on the violent student demonstrations looming in the distance. Read full review

Janice Page

Writer-director Im Sang Soo's coolly stylized political satire doesn't provide a lot of answers, unfortunately, but it does show how the future of a nation might turn on a few drunken insults thrown around at a high-level dinner party. Read full review

V.A. Musetto

Take the real-life 1979 assassination of Park Chung-hee, the despotic, hedonistic, seal-testicle-loving president of South Korea, and stage it as if the Marx Brothers were running the country, and you might get The President's Last Bang. Read full review

G. Allen Johnson

Almost satirical. Read full review

J. Hoberman

From mid-movie on, confusion escalates (along with one's incredulity). Read full review

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jackb.

Dec 8, 2005

One of the best movies I've seen all year. Beautiful camera and sound work, excellent pacing, strong acting by the leads, and set in a slighty ironic-black-comic mood entirely appropriate to the absurd-yet-entirely-serious circumstances.

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