AFF Preview: Dark Matters Series

Published: October 10, 2007, 8:30 pm

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Sure, family-friendly films, "green" cinema and the corresponding warm-fuzzies you get from caring about your lil' ones and The Earth are nice. But historically, motion pictures have always been driven by violence, outlandishness and the public's insatiable and prurient interest in watching things on film that they don't necessarily want to see in real life. In this hallowed vein, the AFF Dark Matters Series explores subject matter ranging from blood-spattered vegans to Korean hillbilly gangs to "a horrible situation involving death, hippies, and uni-brows." Bloody Aria Dir. Shin-yeon Won Thu, Oct 11 9:15 PM, Dobie Theatre Mon, Oct 15 8:00 PM, Dobie Theatre Like a Greek tragedy (or fellow Korean director Park Chan-wook's Vengeance trilogy), the mood transitions from ominous to spectacularly fucked up in this hyper-violent tale of bad choices and worse luck. While driving home from an audition, a big-shot opera singer attempts to rape his pupil somewhere in the

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