Bedford Park (베드포드 파크)
Director – Stephanie Ahn – 2026 – US – Cert. 18 tbc – 121m
****1/2
Two second generation Korean-Americans, adrift from the culture of their ancestral homeland, find solace in one another – from LKFF, the London Korean Film Festival 2026 which runsin cinemas from Monday, November 2nd to Tuesday, November 16th
It emerges only in the final minutes of this tale set in New Jersey tale that its two central, Korean-American protagonists, thrown together by chance, both grew up in the same area of Brooklyn, the eponymous Bedford Park. Between them, they occupy two very different worlds, yet the deep connection they experience suggests something in common.
When her mother (Won Mi-kyung) asks the 36-year-old what she saw in “that man”, the younger woman replies with disarming candour, he gave me room to breathe.
We first meet Audrey Park (Moon Choi from Deliver Us From Evil, Hong Won-chan, 2020; Okja, Bong Joon Ho, 2017) indulging in a one night bondage stand with a character we never see again.
She works as a physio, getting into a row with her boss over cuts to services vital to her patients, and being suspended for three weeks after bluntly swearing at him.… Read the rest