Kim Jong-kwan’s film traces an evolving relationship between young student Young-seok (Nam Joo-Hyuk) and the mysterious Josée (Han Ji-Min), whose meet-cute involves him helping her after she has fallen from her wheelchair. French in origin, ‘Josée’ may well not be the real name of this bookish shut-in, as much as the stories which she tells about herself and her exotic travels seem ...
Rolling + Recorded Q&A with director Kwak Min-Seung
Tue 16 Nov, 6:00pm
Everyman Screen on the Green
Juri (Shim Dal-gi), 25, is shaken out of her homebound lethargy when her mother asks her to fill in at her kimbap (seaweed rice rolls) shop. Juri has never learned how to make kimbap, but she reluctantly takes over while her mother stays with Juri’s ailing grandmother. There is little glamour or excitement in the running of the shop, but Juri’s change in routine slowly starts to hav...
A Good Lawyer’s Wife + Q&A with director Im Sang-soo
Tue 16 Nov, 8:30pm
Ciné Lumière
Ho-jeong (Moon So-ri) gave up a career in dance to be a good wife to lawyer husband Yeong-jak (Hwang Jung-min) and good mother to their adopted son. She does part-time teaching at a nearby dance studio but otherwise her life seems on hold, and sex with her handsome husband leaves her needing to finish things solo. Yeong-jak’s mother Byeong-han (Youn Yuh-jung) is stuck tending to a dying alcoho...
Byeong-sik (Youn Yuh-jung) is the calm, controlled centre within a family of self-indulgent chaebol billionaires. Formerly a nanny, she maintains her role as veteran housemaid and cook with stealthy politeness. She hires in extra help in the form of young, pretty Eun-yi (Jeon Do-youn); she will double as nanny to little girl Nami. While the husband of the family awaits his very pregnant wife’s ...
Closing Gala: Heaven: To the Land of Happiness + Q&A with director Im Sang-soo
Fri 19 Nov, 7:00pm
Picturehouse Central
Heaven: To the Land of Happiness is a festive and pastoral road movie in which two men – “Inmate 203” (Choi Min-sik), who escaped from jail, and “Nam-sik” (Park Hae-il), who coincidentally joins 203’s trip – get their hands on a large amount of money by chance and embark on a journey together, dreaming of a luxurious ending to their lives. The harmony created from Im Sang-soo’s outs...