Art Museum by the Zoo
Relentless Invention: New Korean Cinema, 1996–2003
November 22 - December 12, 2019
Shim Eun-ha and Lee Sung-jae star as odd-couple roommates who find themselves living out the film script they are collaborating on in this charmingly inventive meta-movie romantic comedy, which delivers its genre pleasures with a knowing wink.
On leave from the army, Cheol-soo (Lee Sung-jae) returns to the apartment he used to share with his girlfriend only to discover that she’s moved out, is engaged to another guy, and the flat is now occupied by Choon-hee (superstar Shim Eun-ha in one of her most beloved roles), an awkward young wedding photographer who happens to be similarly unlucky in love. With nowhere else for him to go, the pair become odd couple roommates, pouring their romantic frustrations into a screenplay they cowrite. As fiction and reality intertwine, this charmingly inventive meta-movie romantic comedy delivers its genre pleasures with a knowing wink.
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