
Slide 1: From Thirst to Lust
In Park Chan-wook's Thirst, a priest (Song Kang-ho), infected with vampirism, strays further and further from his calling until he enters into a sexual relationship with a married woman (Kim Ok-bin). The character of a priest was specifically chosen. Park explains, "I wanted to find the highest place of where a person is at his most holy, at his most earnest - and make him fall from that position."







You could add "The Crime of Father Amaro" (2002) to this list!! It is based on a scandalous novel written in Portugal in 1875 and has Gael Garcia Bernal as a lusty Roman catholic priest.