Trio

Trio is Park Chan-wook's second feature film, and it has been seen by relatively few people outside of Korea. It is an action comedy of sorts, shot in black and white, in which three outsiders are united by a common cause. A suicidal saxophone player discovers that his wife is cheating on him, and decides to rob a bank, aided by a violent guy with more muscle than brains, and a young woman who is looking for her missing child. Even though the revenge leitmotif and the dark humor is there, Trio is stylistically an outlier in Park's filmography. Seen through a contemporary lense, it it is a fascinating look at a filmmaker in the making.

Park Chan-wook (b. 1963) from South Korea is one of the world's foremost contemporary filmmakers. He has directed a number of visually spectacular and immersive films, and got his international breakthrough with JSA: Joint Security Area (2000) and Oldboy (for which he won the Grand Jury Price in Cannes in 2003). Thematically, many of his characters are motivated by revenge.