Veteran Korean filmmaker Park Chan-Wook returns to the Venice competition this evening with No Other Choice , his first feature to debut on the Lido in two decades.

This afternoon, during a press conference, the filmmaker said the long-gestation project took the same amount of time to complete due to a lack of funds.

“As the fate of a film always tends to be, it’s not that we didn’t have any budget, but I needed to take the time to make sure that we had a budget where I felt it was sufficient,” Chan-Wook said.

“I am back here at Venice with a film selected in competition. It’s been about 20 years since I was here last. And it also took 20 years to create this film. In that time, I was able to create this amazing group of cast that you see here. And thanks to them, I was able to

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