THE VILLAINESS

SYNOPSIS: Raised from childhood to kill without hesitation, Sook-hee has never known anything but violence — until South Korea’s intelligence agency captures her and offers a devil’s bargain: become their newest sleeper agent, or die. Director Jung Byung-gil answers with some of the most audaciously staged action of the decade, opening with a jaw-dropping single-take corridor massacre that drew instant comparisons to Kill Bill and La Femme Nikita. Starring a ferocious Kim Ok-vin, this is stylized carnage at its most breathlessly inventive. AFFD’s 2017 Closing Night Film.