While sporting dual-frame shots, stylized production design, a jumbled timeline and occasional voice-overs, it’s the subtle acting and direction that save this this enjoyable romantic comedy from hipster reflexivity.
This past May, in coordination with Cannes, The World Cinema Foundation announced that it would partner with TheAuteurs.com as its official online film distribution channel. But who are "The Auteurs," and who’s watching them?
Despite the somewhat jarring end, this South Korean film from 1960 is well-paced and acted, beautifully shot in black and white, and interesting thematically, aesthetically and in its appropriation of different genres.
Ironically, this Wayans brothers send-up of the dance-movie genre shows little comic rhythm.
