SUND@Y SEOUL
A film review by Steve Rhodes
Copyright 2005 Steve Rhodes
RATING (0 TO ****): **
Sometimes people like to talk with their spouse about their day at the office. And so it is with a call girl, one of the many characters in Oh Myung-Hoon's SUND@Y SEOUL, who comes home to her husband and her little girl. She talks to her husband about her last trick, a mute high school boy with whom she has already booked another "date." Their next encounter will occur on this customer's eighteenth birthday.
Although it is possible to juggle a bunch of storylines, as ON THE OUTS in this year's Cinequest Film Festival demonstrated so brilliantly, generally the audience is left waiting for the character development that never has time to occur. With slight stories ranging from a consideration of the longevity of the life of tortoises kept as pets to one about a businessman whose girlfriend doesn't meet him at the airport, SUND@Y SEOUL never even comes close to achieving liftoff. Only in a few briefly erotic scenes does the movie ever break through its monotony.
SUND@Y SEOUL runs 1:12. The film is in Korean with English subtitles.
The film is being shown as part of San Jose's Cinequest Film Festival (www.Cinequest.org), which runs March 2-13, 2005.
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