Hit the Night

  • 85'
  • South Korea
  • 2017

A young filmmaker is doing research for her new project. She approaches a nice boy and bombards him with questions about his love life, one question even more intimate than another. Hesitantly, he agrees to cooperate, even though after a while he starts to realise that this girl wants more than just answers.
In Hit the Night, Jeong Gayoung herself plays the leading role as the sassy, rather lonely young woman who apparently is not trying this for the first time. She slowly gets the man drunk, finding out just about everything about him (how often he masturbates, what he understands by love), but he remains more or less immune to her charms. She in turn is not interested in the nice guy she meets later in the evening in a karaoke bar.
In a simple style obviously reminiscent of the work of Hong Sangsoo, Jeong still manages to develop her own recipe; mildly melancholic, mixed with rebellion and a dash of feminism.

  • 85'
  • South Korea
  • 2017
Director
Jeong Gayoung
Premiere
International premiere
Country of production
South Korea
Year
2017
Festival Edition
IFFR 2018
Length
85'
Medium
DCP
Original title
Bam-chi-gi
Language
Korean
Producer
Kim Joungmin / Lezhin Entertainment
Production Company
Lezhin Entertainment
Sales
M-Line Distribution
Screenplay
Jeong Gayoung
Cinematography
Sun Jonghoon
Editor
Um Yoonzoo
Music
Ahn Jihong
Cast
Jeong Gayoung , Park Jonghwan, Hyung Seulwoo
Director
Jeong Gayoung
Premiere
International premiere
Country of production
South Korea
Year
2017
Festival Edition
IFFR 2018
Length
85'
Medium
DCP
Original title
Bam-chi-gi
Language
Korean
Producer
Kim Joungmin / Lezhin Entertainment
Production Company
Lezhin Entertainment
Sales
M-Line Distribution
Screenplay
Jeong Gayoung
Cinematography
Sun Jonghoon
Editor
Um Yoonzoo
Music
Ahn Jihong
Cast
Jeong Gayoung , Park Jonghwan, Hyung Seulwoo

Programme IFFR 2018

Bright Future

A selection of discoveries for the future. Emerging talent with original subject matter and an individual style. Includes the Bright Future Competition for first feature films.

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