Sunday, November 18, 2012

The Film "In Another Country" should stay there

The S. Korean film, "In Another Country," with English subtitles, has an all Korean cast except for the highly acclaimed French actress, Isabelle Huppert.  Huppert is France's most nominated (13 times) actress for the Cesar Award; France's equivalent to the Oscars.  The story is a rip-off of Virginia Woolf's 1927 novel, To the Lighthouse and the 1998 British-American film, "Sliding Doors."  The film uses the similar premise in "Sliding Doors" of parallel scenarios, and plagiarizes Woolf's brilliant novel where the characters are forever seeking to reach the lighthouse.  The real crime, is that having stolen from these 2 brilliant works, the movie is dreadfully dull.  Anne (Huppert) plays the same woman in all 3 varying (yet, similar) universes where she is pursued or pursues, Korean men.  The adjective beautiful is repeatedly used in all 3 story-lines to describe Anne. I repeat, this movie is boring.  In one scene, Anne, after passionately kissing one of her lovers, slaps him in the face.  When he asks her why she just did that she responds, "I don't know. I love you."  This movie made no sense and I hated it.  In the 3rd scenario, Anne turns in the opposite direction at the same fork in the road.  In this journey Anne meets a monk & asks him "Why am I so miserable."  The monk replies, "Because you lie."  It would be a lie not to tell you to shy away from this debacle.

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