Virgin Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors

The cinematic trend of older man/younger woman fetish fantasies is both parodied and exposed in this dryly engaging film by one of Korea's most acclaimed new directors. (The title is a take-off on a Marcel Duchamp work, The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even.) A love triangle between a young TV writer, her producer, and an ardent art gallery owner eventually resolves to a twosome. Hong Sang-Soo gives the tale the light feel of early Godard or romantic Truffaut, complete with impressive black-and-white lensing and a spirited disregard for narrative convention, playfully skipping between the man's version and the woman's version. Both versions, though, prove that where alcohol goes, love follows.

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