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Title: Woman on The Beach
Release Date: 10/28/2008
Label/Distributor: New Yorker
Rating: Unrated
Prebook DVD: 10/01/2008
Retail Price: $29.95
Genre: Drama Cast: Hyun-Jung Go
Running Time: 127
DVD Video Options: Color,DVD-Video,Letterboxed,NTSC
DVD Audio Options: English;Subtitled,Korean;Original Language
DVD Extras: featurette, interviews
UPC Code: 717119112141
A filmmaker leaves a lover behind at a coastal resort, but she comes back into his life; in Korean with English subtitles.

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Woman on the Beach

By Cheryl Cheng -- Video Business, 9/29/2008

NEW YORKER

Street: Oct. 28
Prebook: Oct. 1
> Romantic drama explores love in modern-day Korea.

Though marketed as a romantic comedy, Woman on the Beach from Korea is serious in tone and elicits few laughs, which could have been lost in translation. The film follows a director (Seung-Woo Kim) who takes a trip with his friend (Tae-Woo Kim) and a beautiful musician (Hyun-Jung Go) to a seaside resort outside of Seoul. The three form a love triangle that gets messier than they expected, as both men fall for Go, who chooses the director but is soon disregarded. When the director pursues another woman (Seon-mi Song), Go unexpectedly returns to prove hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.

Shelf Talk: The box art shows Seung-Woo Kim and Go smiling and embracing, but the complex characters make Woman weightier than a light-hearted romance. Filmmaker Hong Sang-soo and the cast are unknown stateside, so push this one to fans of foreign films, particularly Asian cinema.

Foreign-language romance, color, NR (mature themes, mild sexual content), 128 min., DVD $29.95, Korean with English subtitles
Extras: featurette, interviews
Director: Hong Sang-soo
First Run: L, Jan. 2008, <$1 mil.
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