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Woman On The Beach (Haebyonui Yoin)

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Screening Times: 
Sunday, April 20, 2008 1:30pm
Monday, April 21, 2008 7:00pm

Read about this film in Cyn Collins’s Daily Planet review, “21 films in 11 days.”

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Director: HONG SANSOO

The acclaimed director of Tale of Cinema and Woman Is the Future of Man returns with a comedy drama about love and the complications that develop when one partner is less than candid with the other.

Arrogant film director Lee Mun-Ho is dealing with a creative dry spell in his usual way – charming pretty young ladies into tawdry one-night stands while handing out off-season at a seaside resort. He gets more than he bargains for when he seduces the girlfriend of one of his assistants; this particular woman is not so willing to be tossed aside. An insightful portrait of the complexity of relationships and deceptive pretention, Woman on the Beach reaffirms Sang-soo Hong’s status as one of the most exciting figures in the Asian New Wave. (A chance to discover Korean cinema, if you already haven’t.)

SOUTH KOREA • 2006 • 127 MINUTES • DIRECTOR: HONG SANSOO

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Could have been much better

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 04/25/2008 - 13:23.

Could have been much better (and shorter) if extraneous scenes were cut out. What were the scenes: Director on his knees crying?
First girlfriend runnying through the ?forest at night?

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Ditto

Submitted by Jeanne (not verified) on Sun, 04/27/2008 - 14:55.

Ditto—I wish this film had been about 40 minutes to an hour long, and it could have been. The whole first scene and all the city scenes could have been cut—the entire story, what story there was, could have taken place at the beach.

I appreciated the first girlfriend’s transformation at the end, but it wasn’t worth waiting 127 minutes for it.

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