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Director: Kim In-Shik
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
Remarkable debut feature that takes Korean macho masculinity literally to the end of the road. Ruined stockbroker Suk-Won (Jung) becomes one more piece of social jetsam. Rejected by his wife, he discovers a community of sorts among the winos on the streets of Seoul, dominated by the ultra-macho Dae-Shik (Hwang), a one-time celebrity mountaineer. Dae-Shik helps rescue Suk-Won from himself and suggests a cross-country trip together; only after encounters with various damaged women and men (including strung-out waitress Il-Joo and Dae-Shik's abandoned wife and son) does Suk-Won realise that he's the focus of an all-male love story. There are several strange assumptions about love, pain and gay self-hatred running close to the surface here, but the fearless performances and arresting visuals (somewhere between Cassavetes and Kore-eda) carry a high level of conviction.Author: TR
Cast & crew
Director: Kim In-Shik
Producer: Tcha Sung-Jai, Choi Jae-Won, Kim Jae-Won
Cast: Hwang Jung-Min, Jung Chan, Seo Lin full cast
Duration: 106 mins
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