16th New York Asian Film Festival

Jun 30 - Jul 16, 2017

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North American Premiere

Kfc

WATCH AT YOUR OWN RISK! Talk about out of left field. This omnibus of strange and harrowing stories connected by vagabond characters at various levels of moral bankruptcy satellites around the same KFC location. The fast food icon is an embedded metaphor linking to the film’s most gruesome transgression (and that's saying something!). A sick doctor and his twisted cohorts attack random people and ultimately cannibalize them. The doctor's own young rotund son has grown accustomed to the taste of human flesh and gleefully tries to share it with streetkids he meets who have already run afoul of an assortment of evil creeps. Rendering this whole affair even more head-scratching is its arthouse-leanings, combining an ethereal ennui and anomie with raw, visceral savagery. It's really sick in most parts but what makes it unforgettable is the sheer talent of its director, and the ineradicable sense that there is something ineffably profound about it.

Director: Lê Bình Giang
Cast: Primrose Trâm, Hoàng Bá Sơn, Tony Nguyễn, Tạ Quang Chiến
Languages: Vietnamese with English subtitles
2017; 68 min.; DCP

SCHEDULE:

Thursday July 6, 10:45pm
Film Society of Lincoln Center