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Oh! Soo-jung

  • 20002000
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  • 2h 6m
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7.0/10
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Oh! Soo-jung (2000)
ComedyDrama
Relationship filled with pitfalls between a pleasant female video producer and a gallery owner as they become embroiled in their self-spun web of illusions. Bitter-sweet serenade to modern c... Read allRelationship filled with pitfalls between a pleasant female video producer and a gallery owner as they become embroiled in their self-spun web of illusions. Bitter-sweet serenade to modern courtship.Relationship filled with pitfalls between a pleasant female video producer and a gallery owner as they become embroiled in their self-spun web of illusions. Bitter-sweet serenade to modern courtship.
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1.4K
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  • Director
    • Hong Sang-soo
  • Writer
    • Hong Sang-soo
  • Stars
    • Eun-ju Lee
    • Moon Sung-Keun
    • Won-hee Cho
  • Director
    • Hong Sang-soo
  • Writer
    • Hong Sang-soo
  • Stars
    • Eun-ju Lee
    • Moon Sung-Keun
    • Won-hee Cho
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    • 10User reviews
    • 17Critic reviews
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    • Awards
      • 6 wins & 5 nominations

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    Eun-ju Lee
    • Soo-jung
    Moon Sung-Keun
    Moon Sung-Keun
    • Young-soo
    Won-hee Cho
    Myeong-gu Han
    Jeong Ho-Bong
    Lee Hwang-Ui
    • Soo-jung's Older Brother
    Bo-seok Jeong
    • Jae-hoon
    Yeong-dae Kim
    Mi-hyeon Park
    Cho Ryeon
    Mi-jung Song
    Seon Yu
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        • Hong Sang-soo
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        • Hong Sang-soo
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      • Trivia
        The English title "The Virgin Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors" is a reference to Marcel Duchamp's glass artwork "The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even" made between 1915 and 1923. Like the film, the work of art is split into two halves: the upper belonging to the bride and the lower belonging to the bachelors. Also as in the movie, their relationship is ambiguous but presumably sexual.
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        References The Untouchables (1987)

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      10/10
      Beautiful and thoughtful
      Wealthy art gallery owner Jae-hoon (Jeong Bo-seok) waits in a hotel room to have sex with screenwriter Soo-jung (Lee Eun-ju). She phones, however, and claims to be running late and expresses some doubts about consummating their relationship. Later, the scene is replayed but from Soo-jung's point of view with a different result. With its title derived from a surreal artwork by Marcel Duchamp titled "The Bride Stripped Bare by her Bachelors", Hong Sang-soo's elliptical comedy drama A Virgin Stripped Bare by her Bachelors is a process of discovery for both the characters and the viewer. Whether the theme is viewed as the subjectivity of memory or how our perceptions change with each new event, Hong strips away the illusion from romantic love and allows us to see how ambivalent we all may be beyond our idealization.

      The film is divided into five parts, each chapter introduced by enigmatic titles such as "Perhaps Intention", "Perhaps Coincidence", and "Perhaps Accident", and separated by a fade to black, reminiscent of Jim Jarmusch's Stranger in Paradise. The first, third, and fifth parts take place in the present; the second and fourth parts show the history of the couple from their first encounter to the present and reflect the characters' different perceptions/memories. The chapter "Perhaps by Accident" seems to describe Jae-hoon as one who believes that reality is controlled by fate. "Perhaps Intention" describes the assumptions of Soo-jung who makes her decisions based on her assessment of men's true motives and values, judging them by their actions not their words.

      From the outset, the film's narrative appears to be linear as it traces a love triangle that develops between Jae-hoon, Soo-jung and Young-soo, an independent filmmaker. The characters are very real and their desires and frustrations are palpable. However, halfway through, the film begins to repeat episodes from earlier chapters which are dramatized from a different perspective and show slight variations in detail. The second chapter is a flashback to the couple's first meeting. Filmmaker Young-soo (Moon Seong-keun) attends an exhibition at Jae-hoon's art gallery with Soo-jung to gain some inspiration for the film they are working on. The two agree to have lunch with Jae-hoon, perhaps to persuade the wealthy gallery owner to provide some financial backing for the film.

      A few days later, when Jae-hoon meets Soo-jung at Kyongbokgoong Palace, he discovers that she has a pair of gloves that he accidentally left on a bench and believes the incident to be very much a coincidence. When the incident is dramatized the second time, however, it appears that Soo-jung has intentionally scheduled the film crew to meet on the Palace grounds because she knows that Jae-hoon goes there for lunch. Jae-hoon becomes attracted to Soo-jung and asks her to have sex with him and become her lover. She tells him that she will accept his offer but only when they go out for a drink. The sex scenes are erotic but not graphic and reveal the lovers' emotional pain lying just beneath the surface.

      Enhanced by an exquisite original score by OK Kil-sung and the striking black and white cinematography of Choi Yeong-taek, Virgin Stripped Bare by her Bachelors is a beautiful and thoughtful film whose concluding epiphany left me with a lovely glow. Sadly, however, the glow was short lived as I soon discovered that on the night of February 22, 2005, Lee Eun-ju committed suicide at her apartment only a few days after graduating from Dankook University. She was only 24 years old. The memory of her great performance in this outstanding film will long remain.
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      • Nov 20, 2006

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      • Release date
        • May 27, 2000 (South Korea)
      • Country of origin
        • South Korea
      • Language
        • Korean
      • Also known as
        • Virgin Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors
      • Production company
        • Mirashin Korea
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        • $3,936
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      • Runtime
        2 hours 6 minutes
      • Color
        • Black and White
      • Sound mix
        • Dolby Digital
      • Aspect ratio
        • 1.85 : 1

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