Program Details
SYNOPSIS:
Auteur Kim Ki Duk Takes A Scalpel To Modern Culture’s Obsession With Beauty
“The South Korean Answer To Vertigo!”—NY Newsday
Official Selection Toronto Film Festival
From acclaimed director Kim Ki-Duk comes a seering examination of modern culture’s obsession with youthful beauty and unattainable physical perfection. Attractive Seh-hee is having problems with her boyfriend, Ji-woo. After two years, their love has entered a period of weariness. Though faithful to his fiancée, Ji-woo eyes other women and, in bed, seems to get excited only at the thought of making love to other partners. Seh-hee can’t cope with the mounting jealousy tainting her life and decides to dramatically change her look – to become a new woman, with whom her boyfriend can again fall in love. She enters a plastic-surgery clinic and then vanishes for six months – long enough for the scars to heal – leaving Ji-woo hurt and confused by her disappearance. Resurfacing as the new waitress at the coffee shop Ji-woo frequents, Seh-hee – now calling herself See-hee – tries to seduce him. But between them stands the spectre of Ji-woo’s lost girlfriend, with whom he is still very much in love. Jealousy once again creeps into the shaky existence Seh-hee has artificially crafted. Director Kim’s unpredictable genius takes a fashionable issue to extremes in order to probe the dark, jealous core of a relationship gone wrong.
“Thrilling!”—The NY Times
“A Calmly Assured Spellbinder!”—Chicago Tribune
Official Selection: Toronto, Kalovy Vary and SITGES Film Festivals
CREDITS:
Actors: Park Ji-yeon, Seong Hyeon-ah, Ha Jeong-woo, Kim Seong-min, Kim Ji-hyeon
FORMAT:
Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Language: Korean
Subtitles: English
Aspect Ratio: 1.77:1
Number of discs: 1
DVD Release Date: November 6, 2007
Run Time: 97 minutes