Repost: In Another Country (May 15th at the Cleveland Museum of Art)

[IN ANOTHER COUNTRY screens Tuesday March 12th at 9:00 pm at the Capitol Theatre in association with the Cleveladn Cinematheque.]

[IN ANOTHER COUNTRY screens Wednesday May 15th at 7:00 pm at the Cleveland Museum of Art.]

Review by Bob Ignizio

I suppose you could call IN ANOTHER COUNTRY an anthology film, but it feels more like an artistic exercise. In a framing sequence, a young Korean woman tries to take her mind off her family's financial problems by writing short stories. Each story involves a French woman named Anne (Isabelle Huppert) visiting South Korea. In each story, there is some element of marital infidelity with Huppert being a disinterested object of desire in the first segment, a cheating wife in the second, and finally a woman whose husband has left her for a Korean girl in the final tale. Jong-soo (Kwon Hae-hyo) is alternately a rebuffed suitor, the man Anne is cheating on, and then back again. Yoo Jun-sang provides comic relief as a dim witted lifeguard in each segment. Various plot points and lines of dialogue recur in each story.

In Another Country (March 12th at the Capitol Theatre)

[IN ANOTHER COUNTRY screens Tuesday March 12th at 9:00 pm at the Capitol Theatre in association with the Cleveladn Cinematheque.]

Review by Bob Ignizio

I suppose you could call IN ANOTHER COUNTRY an anthology film, but it feels more like an artistic exercise. In a framing sequence, a young Korean woman tries to take her mind off her family's financial problems by writing short stories. Each story involves a French woman named Anne (Isabelle Huppert) visiting South Korea. In each story, there is some element of marital infidelity with Huppert being a disinterested object of desire in the first segment, a cheating wife in the second, and finally a woman whose husband has left her for a Korean girl in the final tale. Jong-soo (Kwon Hae-hyo) is alternately a rebuffed suitor, the man Anne is cheating on, and then back again. Yoo Jun-sang provides comic relief as a dim witted lifeguard in each segment. Various plot points and lines of dialogue recur in each story.