Oki's Movie

Like THE DAY HE ARRIVES, OKI'S MOVIE is another low budget Korean art-house film which appears to have gone straight over my head. While these films are well shot and well acted, they don't seem to say very much; they offer a look at sometimes unusual human relationships but they don't seem to have much insight when all is said and done. And yet people rave over them.

OKI'S MOVIE is a rather confusing assortment of four short film segments which tell of a love triangle between a girl and the two men in her life: a middle-aged professor, and a young film-maker. There's some humour in the film which comes from the characters getting drunk, and the cast are good enough to fully inhabit their characters. But what of it? When all is said and done, what's been the point? Other than some nice visuals and nice classical music, there just doesn't seem to be much going on here. Give me a Kim Ki-duk film any day of the week...