Oki's Movie

  • 80'
  • South Korea
  • 2010
Hong, who won a Tiger award in 1997 with his feature debut The Day a Pig Fell Into the Well, has for years made films about men wrestling with themselves. Here it is in the playful form of a comic-romantic four-part story about making a film, set around a Korean film school with all its machinations and gossiping.
While Professor Song has declared film dead as art, Jingu - a thoughtful, dipsomaniac filmmaker in crisis - tries to stay on his feet in a three-cornered relationship with female student Oki. Despite financial problems, Jingu manages to make a short film, after which he is thrown to the lions in a hilariously embarrassing Q&A in the cinema.
Apart from being a successful comedy, Oki’s Movie is also a plea to regard film as art and to throw overboard such restrictions as having a theme. Most memorable is the scene in a classroom where Jingu and Oki bombard the professor with questions: 'Am I a good person?' and 'What do you most want to do in life?'

  • 80'
  • South Korea
  • 2010
Director
Hong Sangsoo
Country of production
South Korea
Year
2010
Festival Edition
IFFR 2011
Length
80'
Medium
35mm
Original title
Oki-eui younghwa
Language
Korean
Producer
Kim Kyounghee
Production Company
Jeonwonsa Film
Sales
Finecut Co. Ltd
Screenplay
Hong Sangsoo
Cinematography
Jee Yune-Jeong, Park Hong-Yeol
Editor
Hahm Sung-Won
Sound Design
Kim Mir
Music
We Zong-Yun
Cast
Lee Sun-Kyun
Director
Hong Sangsoo
Country of production
South Korea
Year
2010
Festival Edition
IFFR 2011
Length
80'
Medium
35mm
Original title
Oki-eui younghwa
Language
Korean
Producer
Kim Kyounghee
Production Company
Jeonwonsa Film
Sales
Finecut Co. Ltd
Screenplay
Hong Sangsoo
Cinematography
Jee Yune-Jeong, Park Hong-Yeol
Editor
Hahm Sung-Won
Sound Design
Kim Mir
Music
We Zong-Yun
Cast
Lee Sun-Kyun