Sang-kyung Kim, Ki-woo Lee, Ji-won Uhm
In Seoul, the paths of two men and one woman intersect and move apart from one another, centering around their love for cinema. A suicidal student meets a young woman who decides to follow him in his ...( read more
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Bring on the bifurcated meta films! I was confounded by the first half and then the rug gets pulled out from under me and while it becomes clearer it's still bizarre and interesting as hell. The true main character is a first class weirdo who gets involved in some pretty awkward ...( read more)
This film is bullshit. It's as if not meaning anything will suggest a grand mystery we're to discover because there must be a reason. Get it? It's not interesting (and not immediately obvious) that the first half of the film isn't really part of the film but is the 'film' the sec...( read more)
Clever and wry story about sex, lies, and cinematic one-upmanship by Hong Sang-soo, one of Korean cinema's most exciting and original talents. The film has a fresh, New Wave physical charm, with Seoul standing in for Paris or New York, a daring structural playfulness and an audac...( read more)
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