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You Will Be Mine

2009
Sophie Laloy

A young aspiring pianist suffers at the hands of a seductive, psychotic roommate whose obsession with her begins to drain her energy and spirit.


A Good Lawyer's Wife

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A comfortable, upper-middle class couple uses extramarital sex as therapy for their inability to come to terms with the banalities of their marriage in A Good Lawyer’s Wife. Hard-hitting and painfully honest, the film takes aim at South Korea’s nouveau riche, while simultaneously pushing the boundaries of permissible Korean cinema with its frank portrayal of sex and its liberal display of nudity. Drawing comparisons with American Beauty, A Good Lawyer’s Wife plunges us knee-deep in the unravelling lives of Mr. And Mrs. (supposedly) Upstanding and Respectable, where anything goes and all involved maintain an empty, emotionless attitude towards infidelity and sex. Boasting outstanding performances, in particular from Moon So-ri who played a cerebral palsy victim in Oasis, the film was nominated for the Golden Lion at Venice.

As a well-regarded lawyer, Youngjak (Hwang Jungmin) is completely professional, but beneath the veneer of respectability, his personal life is in tatters. He spends any spare time he has careening after his young mistress, while his wife, Hojung (Moon So-ri), a former dancer, has accepted her husband’s philandering and mostly takes care of her precocious 7 year-old adopted son, before warming to the advances of an immature teenage neighbour. Their dysfunctional story takes a more serious turn when, after a drunken evening with his girlfriend, Younjak runs over a man and nearly kills him. Younjak’s self-serving carelessness sets off a chain of events which ultimately ends in tragedy…

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