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?’
Film details
- Country of production
- South Korea
- Year
- 2010
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2011
- Length
- 80'
- Medium/Format
- 35mm
