Foxy Festival (Korean: 페스티발; RR: Peseutibal; "Festival") is a 2010 South Korean film with an all-star ensemble cast. It is a character-driven comedy of manners about the discreet sexual lives of a group of interconnected people in an upper-middle class district of Seoul.[1][2][3][4][5]
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| Hangul | 페스티발 |
| Revised Romanization | Peseutibal |
| McCune–Reischauer | P'esŭt'ibal |
| Directed by | Lee Hae-young |
| Written by | Lee Hae-young |
| Produced by | Lee Jung-se Jo Chul-hyun Lim Min-sub William Kim |
| Starring | Shin Ha-kyun Uhm Ji-won Shim Hye-jin Sung Dong-il Ryoo Seung-bum Baek Jin-hee Oh Dal-su |
| Cinematography | Jo Sang-yun |
| Edited by | Nam Na-yeong |
| Music by | Dalpalan |
Production companies | Daisy Entertainment Achim Pictures Tiger Pictures |
| Distributed by | Showbox/Mediaplex |
Release date |
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Running time | 110 minutes |
| Country | South Korea |
| Language | Korean |
Plot
editLoose cannon Kwak Jang-bae (Shin Ha-kyun), a neighborhood policeman, is obsessed with his sexual prowess and continually wants to have sex with his live-in girlfriend, Ji-su (Uhm Ji-won), an English teacher at a private school who is bored with his macho behavior. Forthright high-school student Ju Ja-hye (Baek Jin-hee) sells her sweat-stained panties on the internet and wants to lose her virginity to scruffy fish-sausage seller Choi-kang Sang-du (Ryoo Seung-bum); the older man is uninterested in her advances but Ja-hye cannot work out why. Ja-hye's mother (Shim Hye-jin), who sells hanbok (traditional Korean female dress), discovers the owner of a hardware shop opposite, Gi-bong (Sung Dong-il), is into S&M and starts having sessions with him in the back of his shop, assuming a dominatrix role. Kim Gwang-rok (Oh Dal-su), Ja-hye's teacher, is a married man who is secretly into wearing women's clothes when his wife is not around. When Jang-bae discovers Ji-su has ordered a vibrator, he has a major crisis over his manhood and stops sleeping with her. Meanwhile, as his neighborhood has been marked for a moral clean-up campaign by the police, it's only time before Jang-bae also bumps heads with its denizens' licentious goings-on.[3]
Cast
edit- Shin Ha-kyun ... Kwak Jang-bae, policeman
- Uhm Ji-won ... Ji-su, Jang-bae's girlfriend
- Shim Hye-jin .... Ju Seon-shim, hanbok shop owner
- Sung Dong-il ... Gi-bong, hardware shop owner
- Ryoo Seung-bum ... Choi-kang Sang-du, fish-sausage hawker
- Baek Jin-hee ... Ja-hye, Seon-shim's daughter
- Oh Dal-su ... Kim Gwang-rok, teacher
- Choi Kwon ... In-su
- Mun Se-yun ... Deok-gu
- Jo Gyeong-suk ... Gwang-rok's wife
- Oh Yun-hong ... flower-shop lady
- Kim Tae-jong ... hairdresser
- Kim Ah-joong ... air doll (cameo)
- Han Sang-jin ... delivery man
- Park So-hyeon
References
edit- ^ Han, Sun-hee (10 August 2010). "Foxy Festival: A light, fun story on sex". Korean Cinema Today. Archived from the original on 27 January 2013. Retrieved 2012-11-18.
- ^ Lee, Hyo-won (19 October 2010). "Sex comedies, romances to heat up theaters". The Korea Times. Retrieved 2012-11-18.
- ^ a b Elley, Derek (1 September 2011). "Foxy Festival". Film Business Asia. Archived from the original on 2013-12-27. Retrieved 2012-11-18.
- ^ Mudge, James (18 March 2011). "Foxy Festival (2010) Movie Review". Beyond Hollywood. Retrieved 2012-11-18.
- ^ Webb, Charles (4 July 2011). "NYAFF 2011: FOXY FESTIVAL Review". Twitch Film. Archived from the original on 2012-08-21. Retrieved 2012-11-18.