Korean Movie Night

Series 3: The Hidden Gems of Korean Cinema

"Cafe Noir"

(New York Premiere) 

Tuesday, June 21, 7 PM
Tribeca Cinemas (54 Varick Street, NYC)
Sung Il JUNG, 2008, 198 mins 

The Hollywood Reporter calls it “enthralling” while other trade papers have violently rejected it like a bad cheeseburger, but either way there’s nothing else out there like film critic Jung Sung-Il’s epic CAFE NOIR. A sprawling, multi-character feature in the vein of a postmodern Robert Altman movie, the film tells the tale of a rejected young lover and his married mistress, juggling visual styles, points-of-view and references to everything from Korean monster movie THE HOST to Dostoevsky’s White Nights and Goethe’s The Sorrows of Young Werther. Truly unique.