The fifth of the twelve directors in the KCCUK’s 2012 film season is Jeon Kye-soo
Screenings
Midnight Ballad for Ghost Theatre (삼거리 극장, 2006)
10 May 2012 @KCCUK
So-dan (Kim Kkobbi) is a girl bored with her tedious life, but she manages to find some distraction in the run-down Three Corners Theater. Initially she goes into the building as a way of finding her grandmother, who is said to have gone into the theater and never came out. She simply vanished. During the day there are few spectators at the theater, but once night falls, ghosts stage a cabaret at Three Corners Theater. In this grotesque and eerie place, So-dan has an uncanny experience- one that engages the senses and disregards the passage of time…
A Perfect Day + If You were Me 4 (유.앤.미, 2008) venue: KCCUK
17 May 2012 @KCCUK
U and Me (If You were Me 4 segment) A weight lifter So-young is in third grade of junior high and she is in the same class as Cheol-gu, who is planning to move to Australia to study there. The two teens feel uncertain about the future that theyve chosen, but their parents just force them to go on, regardless of how they feel.
Lost and Found (뭘 또 그렇게까지, 2009)
24 May 2012 @KCCUK
This film follows a trip to Chuncheon. It is the second feature from director JEON Kye-soo and an interesting parallel to HONG Sang-soo’s films, while demonstrating JEON’s cinematic impulses. He is indeed an audacious director.
The relationship between a painter and a female college student who follows him would be considered very traditional and cliche. The college student believes that she will be filled with artistic inspiration when she sleeps with the famous artist. The painter is mad at the student yet he plays along with her due to sexual temptation. The film calls it bad impulse. However, the bad impulse itself is not a bad thing. That same bad impulse sometimes leads a human into the temptation of art and sometimes provides the moment of truth in the throes of lust
Love Fiction (러브픽션, 2011)
31 May 2012 @Apollo Piccadilly
Joo-wol (Ha Jung-woo) is a novelist suffering writer’s block and he has not been able to write anything for the past couple of years. A hopeless romantic, he looks to find artistic inspiration in every woman he meets, but ends up only with despair and heartache. One day, his publisher asks him to come along to a book fair in Germany for a change of pace. There he meets Hee-jin (Kong Hyo-jin), a film distributor who is there to survey the European film market at an event in Berlin. Unsurprisingly, he falls in love again, and after returning to Seoul, he manages to convince her to go out on a date. As their relationship progresses, Joo-wol writes a bestselling detective novel with a main character loosely based on Hee-jin. However, with this new popularity he begins to discover more than he would like to know about his girlfriend’s complicated history with men.