WOMAN IS THE FUTURE OF MAN / TALE OF CINEMA: TWO FILMS BY HONG SANGSOO [BLU-RAY] [IMPORT]

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• Genre: Sci-Fi
• Plot: This collection brings together Woman Is the Future of Man and Tale of Cinema, the fifth and sixth features of masterful South Korean filmmaker Hong Sangsoo, who has been favourably compared to that great French observer of human foibles, Éric Rohmer. ; ; Woman Is the Future of Man tells of two long-time friends, a filmmaker (Kim Taewoo) and a teacher (Yoo Jitae), who have had an affair with the same woman (Sung Hyunah). The friends decide to meet the girl one more time and see what happens…; ; Tale of Cinema uses the trope of a film-within-a-film to tell two stories, that of a depressive young man (Lee Kiwoo) who forms a suicide pact with a friend (Uhm Jiwon), and the tale of a filmmaker (Kim Sangkyung) who sees a film that he believes was based on his life, and who meets the actress from the film with a view to turning their onscreen relationship into reality.; ; With these two critically acclaimed films, presented here in High Definition for the first time with a wealth of extras, Hong Sangsoo employs his idiosyncratic, measured style to create two compelling and truthful tapestries of human emotion and behavior. ; ; • High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) presentations ; • Original 2.0 stereo and 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio options ; • Newly translated optional English subtitles
• Runtime: 2:58
• Media Format: Movie