In the world of film director Ku Gyun-nam, the “hero” of Hong Sang-soo's latest dissection of the modern-day man-boy, misery doesn't just love company: it spreads itself around like rats spread the plague. “Famous in East Asia,” art-house filmmaker Ku still finds it hard to maintain respect. Attending a film festival as a judge, Ku ignores cinema and instead drinks and fibs his way through several entertainingly awkward encounters; later, a trip to Jeju Island finds him not learning from his mistakes, but blithely (and more drunkenly) repeating them. Instinctively unhappy at a friend's success, always coveting other people's wives, and willing to say anything for a little attention, Ku is, in effect, the essential Hong Sang-soo creation. With its quick and deliberate pans and zooms, Hong's camera seems to have a curiosity of its own, providing the viewer an alternative perspective on the triviality of human foibles and the tapestry of uncomfortable human interactions, central to it the evolution (or lack thereof) of the thinking, drinking man.