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Oversea film festivals invite 'This Charming Girl' one after another

Movie 'This Charming Girl' starring Kim Ji-soo is invited to the 18th Singapore International Film Festival's competiton following the Sundance Film Festival in U.S, Germany's Berlin International Film Festival and so on.

'This Charming Girl', which won NETPAC award, the prize for the Best Asian film in the Forum in Berlin, competes for the Silver Screen Award with 10 films such as 'Hunter'.

Asian cinema section, a non-competition of the Singapore Film Festival, invited also 'My Generation', 'Samaria', and 'Wonderful Days' for Korean films.

Movie 'This Charming Girl' is unfolded with a story for a woman in her late twenties, Jeong-hae to lead a routine, insular life, working in a small neighborhood post office and keeping house by herself.

She is kind, neat, and calm, and seems unusually detached and peaceful for a pretty young woman her age in Seoul. It is only through brief flashbacks and Jeong-haes encounters with others that we are provided glimpses into her character.

She is devoted to the memory of her artist mother. Jeong-hae adopts a stray kitten which she nurses back to health. When the kitten finally warms to her, she is again reminded of her mother, her painful hospitalization, subsequent death and her funeral. She has a surprising and rather strained lunch date with a man who tells her he is getting married.

We learn that he is the ex-husband she had left sleeping on their wedding night, without explanation. In an uncommon venture on her part, Jeonghae invites a young writer, who has been mailing his manuscripts at her post office, to dinner at her house.

The failure of this awkward endeavor results in another attempt to reach out, and she ends up taking care of a young drunk in a motel room.

The encounter triggers revelatory memories of the reason for Jeonghaes emotional blockage, and she breaks with her routine to head, characteristically quietly and de-liberately, towards dealing with her anger and eventually healing her long-concealed wounds.

The Source : Choi Sung-ho

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