Tale of Cinema
Keuk Jang Jeon
credits:
Director: Hong Sang-sooProducer: Jang Ki-soo
Writer: Hong Song-soo
Cast: Kim Sang-kyung, Um Ji-won, Lee Ki-woo
South Korea 2005 | 89 mins | 35mm | Korean w/E.S.
The SFIAAFF regrets to announce that the screening of TALE OF CINEMA (Monday, 3/19, 7:15pm) has been cancelled due to the non-arrival of the print. No additional screening of the film has been scheduled at this time. Ticketholders for this show may bring their ticket to the Festival Box Office at the AMC Van Ness Theatres to exchange for any ticket to a non-sold-out, regular admission program. For refunds, please bring your hard ticket to the Festival Box Office. For tickets purchased by credit card, please bring the credit card used to the Box Office so that the amount can be credited. For tickets purchased by cash or check, please provide your mailing address at the Festival Box Office where we will mail you a check. No cash will be dispensed. For any questions, please email boxoffice@asianamericanmedia.org
TALE OF CINEMA was Hong Sang-soo’s second film in competition for Best Film at the Cannes Film Festival. As is common for Hong, the film follows two connected stories. (To say how they are connected would spoil the pleasure.) The first story follows young Sang-won and Young-shil’s reunion after a few years apart and the two nights they spend together in a “love motel,” where they make a pledge to die together. The second story follows Dong-soo’s stalker-like pursuit of an actress, also named Young-shil. “As art and life keep twisting in a Moebius strip, the male psyche, South Korean version, is bared with detached amusement in all its doggedness, uncertainty, and will to power. The film has a fresh, New Wave physical charm, with Seoul standing in for Paris; a daring structural playfulness; and an audacious fidelity to the perverse, self-defeating impulses of human character” (New York Film Festival).
