Apr
28
2008
Love Exposure
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Movie Review : Love Exposure
Release Date : January 31, 2008
Country : South Korea
Director : Eon-hie Lee
Starring : Mi-yeon Lee, Tae-ran Lee
Runtime : 100 min
Editor Rating : 5.5
Users Rating: 5.67 
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“Love Exposure” treads familiar territory, its story revolves around upper class urbanites, knocking on the door steps of middle age, dealing with relationships and more relationships. And the manner in which those relationships are pretty familiar … extra-curricular affairs, break-ups and then reconciliations. Certainly there’s nothing that we haven’t seen before, but strangely enough, “Love Exposure” still manages to generate interest in spite of its familiarity. The soundtrack, reflective of the cosmopolitan feel the movie tries to convey, spins songs straight out of the “Lost of Translation” realm. A mixture of shoegazy drone & lighter indie pop, all Asian flavored, which sounded enjoyable enough on its own. But something seemed off kilter. One of the opening scenes even sported a song that sounded like an instrumental version of the Jesus & Mary Chain’s “Just Like Honey.” But there’s still that feeling that something is odd. Then Je-mun Yun makes an appearance and the odd Koreaness of the film rears its big head. Shoegazy music, “ahjuma’s” (albeit very attractive ahjuma’s) acting out like characters from “Sex and the City” and Je-mun Yun not playing a metallic silver suited gangster. Weirddd.
In “Love Exposure,” Jeong-wan (Mi-yeon Lee) is a free spirited woman, works during the day as a photographer and by night engages in intimate relationships with married men. Although she’s in her mid 30’s, she has no plans to get married herself. Meanwhile, her best friend Hee-su (Tae-ran Lee) is married. Hee-su, like Jeong-wan, is fashionable, confident, and believes herself to be sophisticated. With that in mind, Hee-su did make the odd decision to marry Hyung-sik (Je-mun Yun), a dopey fellow that’s anything but cosmopolitan. But, Hyung-sik is wealthy, which initially led Hee-su to opt for the safe choice. Things now turn out for the unexpected when Hee-su spots her husband walking arm-in-arm with a younger girl into a swanky hotel.
Shortly afterwards, Hee-su tells Jeong-wan that she doesn’t mind if her husband has affairs. In fact, she finds her husband more appealing knowing that younger woman are attracted to him as well. Her perceptions though get shattered when she meets the younger girl face to face. She learns that her husband has been literally begging to have an affair and the girl out of pity finally succumbed to his wishes. Hee-su’s pride has now just taken the ultimate blow.
The way things resolve itself in “Love Exposure,” there’s nothing new shed on the familiar subject of relationships or infidelity. As bawdy as the ladies lived their lives in the beginning of the film, by the end of the film, they’ve all settled into rather ordinary ways. This is akin to watching a movie about bank robbers and by the end of the film learning that robbing banks are wrong. Duh. Do you really need to spend two hours to figure that out? Not really, but than again, there is that dreamy soundtrack, Mi-yeon Lee and Tae-ran Lee sporting sexy outfits, and even Je-mun Yun playing anything but a gangster. Hmm….
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Cast:
Mi-yeon Lee – Jeong-wan Seo
Tae-ran Lee – Hee-Su Yun
Jun-seong Kim – Yeong-ho Kwon
Je-mun Yun – Hyung-sik Kim
Byeong-chun Kim – Yong-ho Kim
Hong-pyo Kim – Yong-ju
Hwa-ju Kim – Ae-ri Kim
Hye-sang Lee – Ji-yeon Kim
Yeong-ran Lee – Jeong-wan’s mother
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I thought this was ok, but its really a womens flick…