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Sunhi, a film major graduate, visits her school to ask her Professor Choi for a recommendation letter to study in U.S. Knowing the professor favors her, she expects a good recommendation from him. Out from her shell after a long time, Sunhi also ends up meeting two men from her past: Munsu, her ex-boy friend, and Jaehak, a director who graduated from the same film school. Through the encounters between Sunhi and the three men, they give each other an 'advice on life' with good intentions. The three men who all have strong interests in her are led to guess and define her, unable to tell how she really feels inside. Strangely, the mentioned advices and traits of her are similar and seem to pass from one person to the next. The words of 'advice on life' seem doubtable and slip away as the three men's thoughts on Sunhi become more and more irrelevant.
| Release : | 2013 |
| Rating : | 6.7 |
| Studio : | Jeonwonsa Film, |
| Crew : | Director of Photography, Still Photographer, |
| Cast : | Jung Yu-mi Lee Sun-kyun Kim Sang-joong Jung Jae-young Lee Min-woo |
| Genre : | Drama Romance |
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I love this movie so much
Boring, over-political, tech fuzed mess
While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.
Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.
Sunhi is a pretty film student who returns to her college town after being away for a year. She reencounters several men from her school days, all academic filmmakers who are very different from one another, yet are also hilariously similar in some ways. One of the film's main strengths is its simplicity: all it features is a series of funny conversations between two or three people, sometimes at a park, in broad daylight, sometimes in a bar, where emotions flow more freely. Part of the reason why it works so well is because all the characters are so believable and exquisitely played. The beautiful Yu-mi Jeong carries the lead role with natural charm and comic talent, while Jae-yeong Jeong, Sun-kyun Lee and Sang Jung Kim present an eloquent picture of intelligent men at their most stupid.
Sunhi returns to the film school she graduated from a year before and starts to run into old friends. She's interested in some, others are interested in her. Awkward encounters ensue, heavy drinking and eating chicken. It's a sort of a Rom-Com, but with some kind of Korean twist that I didn't completely understand. The closest comparison is an extended episode of Seinfeld, or perhaps a Woody Allen movie.I saw this film yesterday at Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF). On the plus side, there were a number of funny scenes, especially revolving around the game of telephone being played between the four main characters as they talk about Sunhi, each other, how they need to dig deeper to find themselves, etc. On the downside, not much happens, I never really got into any of the characters, and ultimately I was a bit bored.I suspect that there's a cultural and language disconnect. I don't think that the subtitles did justice to what seemed to be some clever repetition of lines and memes circling between the characters. Culturally, I know that Korea has a deep and quite dissimilar culture compared to Canada. So, I suspect that many of the jokes and potentially the romanticism was lost on me. Director Hong Sang-soo is said to be quite successful in Korea. Perhaps with a better introduction by the festival staff, and improved subtitles, this film could be more successful. As it is I can only give it a 6/10.
