Virgin Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors

Virgin Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors
Virgin Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors
	Theatrical poster
Directed by	Hong Sang-soo
Written by	Hong Sang-soo
Produced by	Ahn Byeong-ju
Starring	Lee Eun-ju; Moon Sung-keun; Jeong Bo-seok
Cinematography	Choi Yeong-taek
Edited by	Hahm Sung-won
Music by	Ok Gil-seong
Production; company	Mirashin Korea
Distributed by	Buena Vista (Korea)
Release date	26 May 2000;
Running time	126 minutes
Country	South Korea
Language	Korean

Virgin Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors (Oh! Soo-jung) is a 2000 South Korean comedy-drama film, directed by Hong Sang-soo. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival.^[1]

It follows the romantic travails of a video producer and a gallery owner, and the web of deceit they spin around their relationship. It was an early success in the short career of female star Lee Eun-ju, who took her own life five years later.^[2]

The title of the film is presumably a reference to Marcel Duchamp's artwork The Bride Stripped Bare By Her Bachelors, Even.

Plot

Soo-jung (Lee Eun-ju) is a scriptwriter for a local cable TV station. She is close with the program producer Young-soo (Moon Sung-keun). In attempts to urge his rich friend Jae-hoon to finance an independent film he is currently directing, Young-soo visits Jae-hoon's (Jeong Bo-seok) gallery with Soo-jung tagging along. Jae-hoon finds himself attracted to Soo-jung and asks her to become his lover. Soo-jung somewhat reluctantly accepts the offer on condition that it will only be when they go out for a drink. Their tug-of-war reveals that Soo-jung is still a virgin and this impresses Jae-hoon as well as escalates his frustration. Meanwhile, Young-soo also expresses his feelings for Soo-jung. Soo-jung will have to decide whether to surrender her virginty as Jae-hoon anxiously awaits her at a hotel room.

Cast

Lee Eun-ju as Soo-jung
Moon Sung-keun as Young-soo
Jeong Bo-seok as Jae-hoon

Awards

2001 Grand Bell Awards^[3]

Best New Actress - Lee Eun-ju

2000 Asia-Pacific Film Festival

Best Screenplay

2000 Tokyo International Film Festival

Special Mention

References

^ "Festival de Cannes: Virgin Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 2009-10-16.
^ http://english.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2005/02/24/2005022461002.html
^ http://www.cinemasie.com/en/fiche/oeuvre/viergemiseanuparsespretendants/

External links

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[festival-cannes.com-1] "Festival de Cannes: Virgin Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 2009-10-16.

[2] ttp://english.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2005/02/24/2005022461002.html

[3] ttp://www.cinemasie.com/en/fiche/oeuvre/viergemiseanuparsespretendants/

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v t e Films directed by Hong Sang-soo
1990s	The Day a Pig Fell into the Well (1996) The Power of Kangwon Province (1998)
2000s	Virgin Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors (2000) On the Occasion of Remembering the Turning Gate (2002) Woman Is the Future of Man (2004) Tale of Cinema (2005) Woman on the Beach (2006) Night and Day (2008) Like You Know It All (2009)
2010s	Hahaha (2010) Oki's Movie (2010) The Day He Arrives (2011) In Another Country (2012) Nobody's Daughter Haewon (2013) Our Sunhi (2013) Hill of Freedom (2014) Right Now, Wrong Then (2015) Yourself and Yours (2016) On the Beach at Night Alone (2017) Claire's Camera (2017) The Day After (2017) Grass (2018) Hotel by the River (2018)
2020s	The Woman Who Ran (2020) Introduction (2021) In Front of Your Face (2021) The Novelist's Film (2022) Walk Up (2022) In Water (2023) In Our Day (2023) A Traveler's Needs (2024)