PIFF

This week was Pusan International Film Festival (PIFF). It's one of the biggest film festivals in all of Asia. Hye Sook and I bought tickets to five movies showing at the festival (but only ended up watching 4 because we were too tired). Here's what we saw:

1. In Between Days: A movie about a Korean teenager living in America after her and her mother move here. It's kind of a love story as she falls into love with this Korean boy and then the relationship deteriorates. It was pretty good.

2. The Boss of it All: A Danish movie about a guy who runs a business, but it too much of a wimp to tell people to do things, so he always says the orders come from "The Boss of it all." Eventually he's pushed into a corner and must produce this "boss," so he hires an actor to play him. Hijinx ensue.

3. Second Moon: By far the best one we saw. It was about a group of guys that were trying to "sexually liberate" women (but really pretty much just helped women cheat on their husbands). They had rules about not getting attached to any one woman, but one guy falls in love with one girl. Hijinx ensue.

4. Butterfly Mole: The story of subway drivers, and them hitting people that jump onto the tracks to commit suicide. One of the driver's wife and brother go missing and the rest of the movie is about trying to find them. Very dark movie, but pretty good (despite the subtitles being almost completely jibberish).

Some of the following pictures are from PIFF, and some from just around, but the first few are from Chu-Sawk day over at Hye Sook's Parents' house.

Ryan