The Images of Decision to Leave: Inside Park Chan-wook’s Noir Masterwork

Park Chan-wook exhaustively storyboards his films. He thinks so carefully through every image that, as we get to discussing a handful for this feature, it’s clear that one interview won’t cut it. So we made time for two conversations. Watch his new feature and you will see why. Decision to Leave is an exacting work of craft and storytelling, melding romantic and detective narrative beats in the award-winning director’s distinctive spin on an old-school, film-noir-tinged thriller. Stylish, mysterious, and surprisingly whimsical, the movie—which follows the dangerous but heated connection between a Busan, Korea detective, Hae-jun (Park Hae-il), and the prime… Read Full Article