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Cast and CrewCast: Cast: Kim Soo-ro,Han Jae-seok,
Song Yeong-chang,Ryoo Seung-yong...
Director: Jang Jin
World Premiere: September 11, 2010 (Venice Film Festival)
Release Date: September 16, 2010
Language: Korean
Country: South Korea
Revised romanization: Ok-Heeui Younghwa
Hangul: 옥희의 영화
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The Story:
34 year old Jin Man (Han Suk Kyu, better known for his macho roles in The Scarlet Letter and Tell Me Something) used to run a large labor union but now stays at home whilst his wife goes out to work everyday. He is a good cook and housekeeper and dedicates his life to looking after their young daughter. However, when he gets caught out in a confidence scam and loses all the money he had put aside for his father-in-law’s operation, Jin Man takes desperate measures. Slipping on a dress he applies to take part in the TV game show “Quiz Show For Wives,” in the hope of winning the jackpot. Quiz King (Directed by Yoo Seon-dong, starring Han Seok-Kyu, Sin Eun-kyeong) is a comedy, and the catchphrase for the movie reads: A male housewife’s delightful coming-out. As can be inferred by the phrase coming-out, this movie comes with the premise that it is an embarrassing secret for a man to stay at home. The main character, Oh Jin-man, betrays this premise and appears on a TV quiz show to reveal his identity to the world. He suffers a brief period of despair when his wife leaves home because of her embarrassing husband, but the couple end up living happily ever after. Han Suk-gyu is natural and comfortable in his role, starring as Oh Jin-man, a former elite corporate worker who has been a homemaker for six years. His sudden transformation, wearing mascara, fake eyelashes and high heels, is hilarious. Shin Eun-gyung stars as his wife, a master of ceremonies at a broadcast station. Jin-man enters a mutual-aid union hoping to receive more interest, but when someone runs off with the money, he is forced to raise 30 million won. He decides to go for the prize money in a quiz show for housewives, and enters the preliminaries dressed as a woman. His identity is revealed, however, but the broadcast station realizes this could be a hit and allows him to enter the show anyway. An expert in both current affairs and homemaking, Jin-man wins for three consecutive weeks and becomes a celebrity.
Quiz King Movie Review:
Lee Seon-kyun (Pasta) and Jung Yumi (Que Sera Sera) are two of my favorite drama actors, so naturally my interest was piqued to see that they are starring in a film together, called Oki’s Movie. It comes from director Hong Sang-soo, who won a prize at Cannes earlier this year in the Un Certain Regard category for his film Ha Ha Ha.
Already this new movie has been invited to another film festival, the 67th Venice International Film Festival, into its competitive “Orizzonti” section. According to the festival, it is “the Venice International Film Festival’s most innovative section, a veritable documentary array of contemporary cinema in all its forms of expression.”
A four-fold story develops around the three main characters, intertwined into one overall structure. The film is described as “candid and funny” with an “unconventional format.”
The movie stars Jung Yumi as the titular Oki (more traditionally spelled Ok-hee), an ordinary film student. Her classmate Jin-gu (Lee Seon-kyun) likes her and confesses his feelings for her in one of the stills below (he follows her all the way up the mountainside and gets drunk on makgulli), but her response is a vague “Thank you so liking me so much.”
Their film department professor Moon Sung-geun is the third character who has a good relationship with Oki and treats her nicely, all the while getting the evil eye from Jin-gu. (That is too cute.)
Jin-gu decides to try again at Christmas dinner and waits outside her place, but she doesn’t show up till dawn. Finding that he has spent the night there, she scolds him for waiting all this while.
Oki’s Movie is scheduled to release in Korea on September 16. Already considered one of the forefathers of the new Korean cinema, South Korean auteur Hong Sangsoo continues to pursue a distinctive style that challenges conventional cinema. Fresh from winning the Un Certain Regard prize at this year’s Cannes Film Festival for “Ha Ha Ha,” he continues his current creative streak with “Oki’s Movie,” further evidence of a visionary filmmaker undaunted by the whims of the market.
In a multipart narrative divided into four chapters, Hong fashions a new kind of love triangle. Oki is a young and beautiful college student majoring in film production and torn between the affections of two men: an older cinema professor and a former student/budding filmmaker. As the story shifts perspectives and timelines, Hong depicts each relationship with the authentically awkward rhythms of real life.
Rather than following the conventions of movie romance, Hong turns “Oki’s Movie” into a formally irreverent exercise in minimalism. A calming, mostly static visual palette evokes documentary style and imposes a kind of moral perspective on the three lovers. Ascetic in sensibility, the more Hong’s camera probes the cruder side of love, the more it shows up the baseness of romantic jealousy and competition.
The balance of tones in Hong’s films is always complex. Here he instills this love story with his unique brand of humor, but it is mixed with heartfelt melancholia. The film builds to a genuinely moving ending. But, disdainful of simplistic storytelling, Hong makes sure to wind his way to the finish with elaborate plotting and an insider’s sense of living within cinema.
Sparse, relaxed and jarringly real, “Oki’s Movie” bravely rejects easy classification. It is the work of a self-assured artist unafraid to expose the inner worlds of his characters to reveal their flawed humanity. [Synopsis courtesy of Giovanna Fulvi/Toronto International Film Festival]
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