Book chon bang hyang (2011)

Book chon bang hyang: Directed by Sang-soo Hong. With Joon-Sang Yoo, Sang-Jung Kim, Song Seon-mi, Bo-kyeong Kim. A professor in the film department at a provincial university goes to Seoul to meet his senior, who works as a film critic, and stays in a northern Seoul village for three days.

“This genuinely weird Korean film seemed like a fusion of u0026quot;Groundhog Dayu0026quot; and u0026quot;No Exitu0026quot; but in a style that married Eric Rohmer and Woody Allen. I donu0026#39;t really know if I liked it or not and kind of admire it for that. A Korean film-maker, who has forsaken the art world for a simple life as a rural school-teacher, returns to Seoul to reunite with friends. The first night is an enthralling experience of great, drunken conversation on the nature of chance and identity, with much drunken lust thrown in. Each following day becomes a less satisfying copy of the first. Time has stopped, and only the director seems (semi) conscious of it. I would interpret this work as a kind of confession. The directoru0026#39;s development has been entrapped by his vanity even as he strives for a life of modesty. Whatever else, it captures Seoul, and drunken satisfaction- be it intellectual or amorous- very nicely.”