Yeojaneun namjaui miraeda [videorecording] = Woman is the Future of Man Sang-soo Hong

By:

Sang-soo Hong

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Material type: Film

FilmLanguage: Korean Summary language: English Original language: Korean Subtitle language: English Publication details: South Korea France Mirashin Korea 2006Description: 1 videodisc (88 min.) sound, color. 4 3/4 inOther title:

Yeojaneun namjaui miraeda

Uniform titles:

Woman is the Future of Man

LOC classification:

PN1997 .Y465 2004

Summary: From case cover: Like Wong Kar-wai and Tsai Ming-liang, New Korean Cinema luminary Hong Sangsoo marries Asian and European sensibilities. Michael Atkinson in The Village Voice cannily dubbed him "the love child Antonioni and Hou Hsiao-hsien never had", while Woman Is the Future of Man could be described as a postmordern, post-romantic riff on Rashomon and Jules and Jim, refracting an unstable menage a trois through two misaligned perspectives. The film's ruefully comic view of mordern love centers on the Mutt-and-Jeff dynamic between two mismatched buddies -- tall, placid art professor Munho and short, volatile filmmaker Hunjoon -- who share an inconsistent passion for the same woman, artist-turned-bar-girl Sunhwa. Shuttling between the summery past and the snowy present, the two recently reunited friends drunkenly recall their failed relationships with Sunhwa, littered with broken promises, fumbled opportunities, and sexual gaucheries. Employing a hyperobservant camera style acutely sensitive to quicksilver shifts in the emotional weather, Woman Is the Future of Man is a wry, wistful discourse on the immaturity of men, the fickleness of memory, the elusiveness of love. From IMDB: On a very cold winter morning, two friends meet after many years. Hun-joon who has just got back from USA after his film studies and Mun-ho, a part time lecturer at a university, reminisce over the past, drinking in a Chinese restaurant. Hours of drinking and talks, mixed with the recollections of the past bring them back the memory of a woman. A woman they both were romancing during the same period of time. After wandering in their own version of reminiscence, they decided to find and meet her, who turns out to be running a hotel lobby bar in Puchon, a satellite city near Seoul. The woman, Sun-hwa, without showing much emotion upon their appearance, asks them to wait in front of her apartment. When she returns, they begin a decadent drinking party till the daybreak.

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Holdings
Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
DVD - Video	SILC Learning Support Services DH132-DVD-E: DVD Cabinet E	PN1997 .Y465 2004	Available		000156

Special features:
- Video introduction by Academy Award winning director Martin Scorsese
- Making of the film
- Interviews with actors
- Photo gallery

From case cover:
Like Wong Kar-wai and Tsai Ming-liang, New Korean Cinema luminary Hong Sangsoo marries Asian and European sensibilities. Michael Atkinson in The Village Voice cannily dubbed him "the love child Antonioni and Hou Hsiao-hsien never had", while Woman Is the Future of Man could be described as a postmordern, post-romantic riff on Rashomon and Jules and Jim, refracting an unstable menage a trois through two misaligned perspectives.
The film's ruefully comic view of mordern love centers on the Mutt-and-Jeff dynamic between two mismatched buddies -- tall, placid art professor Munho and short, volatile filmmaker Hunjoon -- who share an inconsistent passion for the same woman, artist-turned-bar-girl Sunhwa. Shuttling between the summery past and the snowy present, the two recently reunited friends drunkenly recall their failed relationships with Sunhwa, littered with broken promises, fumbled opportunities, and sexual gaucheries. Employing a hyperobservant camera style acutely sensitive to quicksilver shifts in the emotional weather, Woman Is the Future of Man is a wry, wistful discourse on the immaturity of men, the fickleness of memory, the elusiveness of love.

From IMDB:
On a very cold winter morning, two friends meet after many years. Hun-joon who has just got back from USA after his film studies and Mun-ho, a part time lecturer at a university, reminisce over the past, drinking in a Chinese restaurant. Hours of drinking and talks, mixed with the recollections of the past bring them back the memory of a woman. A woman they both were romancing during the same period of time. After wandering in their own version of reminiscence, they decided to find and meet her, who turns out to be running a hotel lobby bar in Puchon, a satellite city near Seoul. The woman, Sun-hwa, without showing much emotion upon their appearance, asks them to wait in front of her apartment. When she returns, they begin a decadent drinking party till the daybreak.

DVD video, Dolby Digital 5.1, surround, NTSC, Region 1, 16:9 widescreen.

Korean audio. Optional English subtitles.

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