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SFIAAFF 2009—Michael Hawley Previews the Line-up
The Evening Class — ... which Festival Director Yang described as "almost a perfect film," is an urban road trip/city symphony flick in which two ex-lovers drive around the streets of Seoul from dawn till dusk. Happily, the couple are played by Jeon Do-yeon, winner of the 2007 Cannes Best Actress prize for Secret Sunshine, and Ha Jung-woo, the hunk hired to impregnate Vera Farmiga's character in Never Forever. The Closing Night feature is Treeless Mountain, So Yong Kim's highly anticipated follow-up to ...

Korean Cinema at SFIAAFF 2009
YNOT at the Movies — Like most years, emerging Korean cinema always has a strong presence at SFIAAFF. In fact, this year's both opening and closing night films are Korean. Korean actor Ha Jung-woo (하정우) is perhaps one of the mostly sought actors these days. While his terrific performance in "Time" (시간) and "Never Forever" (두 ...