
Hong Sang-soo, one of cinema’s most exciting and original
talents (Turning Gate, NYFF ‘02, Woman is the Future of Man, NYFF ‘04)
continues his distinctly personal brand of filmmaking with this wry story about
sex, lies, and cinematic one-upmanship. The less successful of two film-school
graduates is hung up on the notion that the other, more flourishing classmate
had stolen elements of his life to make his first movie. As art and life keep
twisting in a Moebius strip, the male psyche, South Korean version, is bared
with detached amusement in all its doggedness, uncertainty, and will to power.
The film has a fresh, New Wave physical charm, with Seoul standing in for Paris;
a daring structural playfulness; and an audacious fidelity to the perverse, self-defeating
impulses of human character. 90 min. South Korea/France, 2005. * Director expected to attend.
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