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Video Interviews: Yeon Je-gwang and Lee Ju-seung

The Guest is screening at New York Asian Film Festival

On the occasion of screening at , director and protagonist talk about the path that led from a short to a feature film, Lee’s character in the movie, ambiguity and ‘grey’ characters, poverty and its connection with crime, Chicago Bulls tracksuits, the most difficult scene to shoot and their favorite ones and their future plans.

Additional questions by Simon Ramshaw.

The video froze at 17:34 so the rest of the interview is just sound along with movie stills.

About the author

Panos Kotzathanasis

Panagiotis (Panos) Kotzathanasis is a film critic and reviewer, specialized in Asian Cinema. He is the owner and administrator of Asian Movie Pulse, one of the biggest portals dealing with Asian cinema. He is a frequent writer in Hancinema, Taste of Cinema, and his texts can be found in a number of other publications including SIRP in Estonia, Film.sk in Slovakia, Asian Dialogue in the UK, Cinefil in Japan and Filmbuff in India.

Since 2019, he cooperates with Thessaloniki Cinematheque in Greece, curating various tributes to Asian cinema. He has participated, with video recordings and text, on a number of Asian movie releases, for Spectrum, Dekanalog and Error 4444. He has taken part as an expert on the Erasmus+ program, “Asian Cinema Education”, on the Asian Cinema Education International Journalism and Film Criticism Course.

Apart from a member of FIPRESCI and the Greek Cinema Critics Association, he is also a member of NETPAC, the Hellenic Film Academy and the Online Film Critics Association.

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