Korean Movie Night: Girl By Girl

When:Tuesday July 27, 2010
Time:7:00pm
Where:Tribeca Cinemas
54 Varick Street
Manhattan, NY
Cost:Free

The Korean Culture Society continues its Free Korean Movie Night with a Free Screening of Girl By Girl.

About Girl By Girl:

Starting life as a student film made for cable TV, GIRL BY GIRL (SONYEO X SONYEO) became a popular hit thanks to its ferociously committed lead performance by Kwak Ji-Min, the star of Kim Ki-Duk¡¯s SAMARITAN GIRL and one of the actors in the bawdy, over-the-top DASEPO NAUGHTY GIRLS. In GIRL BY GIRL Kwak plays a troublemaking high school student out for a good time and nothing more. When she and a model student both fall for the same guy, she figures that this means war, and so she manages to convince the model student that their dream man only likes bad girls, while trying to turn herself into the perfect high school girl he actually desires. It sounds contrived, and it is, but Kwak¡¯s go-for-broke performance papers over all the rough spots with its speed and commitment. She¡¯s heartless one minute, ridiculous another and then oddly sympathetic, just like a real teenager.