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Film Review: THE FIN: A Fascinating and Bleak Look at Frightening Possibilities [Locarno 2025]

The Fin (2025) Film Review from the 78th Annual Locarno Film Festival, a movie written and directed by Syeyoung Park and starring Yeji Yeon, Pureum Kim, Goh-woo, Jung Yeong-Do and Joowon Meng.
The Hollywood Reporter

‘The Fin’ Takes Us to a Dystopian Post-War, Eco-Devastated Korea With a Wall to Keep Out Mutants

Syeyoung Park tells THR about his micro-budget genre feature, which stars Korean singer Pureum Kim and 'Pachinko' actress Yeji Yeon and premieres at Locarno, and the blurring of fiction and reality.
FilmBook

Video Movie Review: THE FIN (2025): Intelligent Sci-Fi Ideas Sharpen a Bleak Dystopian Vision

Rollo Tomasi is a Connecticut-based film critic, TV show critic, news, and editorial writer. He will have a MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia University in 2026. Rollo has written over 700 film, ...
Deadline.com

North And South Korea Are Reunified In Syeyoung Park’s Locarno Competition Title ‘The Fin’ — First Trailer

EXCLUSIVE: Korean filmmaker debuts his genre feature The Fin today in Competition at Locarno. You can watch the film’s first trailer above. The film’s official synopsis reads: In a post-war and ...
Variety

Director Syeyoung Park Aims to ‘Pollute the Screen with Colorful Textures’ in His Dystopian ‘The Fin,’ at the Locarno Film Festival

A unified post-war Korea where the sea and the sky are enveloped in poignant red is the main stage of Syeyoung Park’s “The Fin,” his follow-up to debut “The Fifth Thoracic Vertebra” which world ...