BEAUTIFUL - NYC FREE ADMISSION FEB. 9

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 9 @ 7pm

Korean Cultural Service will be screening FREE KOREAN MOVIES

at Tribeca Cinemas
FREE ADMISSION
54 Varick Street, NYC

(on the corner of Canal Street, one block from the A, C, E and 1 train Canal Street stops) Price? Free. Seating will be on a first come, first served basis. Or if you want to guarantee a seat, just RSVP to info@koreanculture.org or call 212-759-9550

BEAUTIFUL
(2008, 88 minutes, New York Premiere)

First timer Juhn Jai-Hong took an unfinished screenplay by his mentor, Kim Ki-Duk (The Isle, Bad Guy), and turned it into this insane slice of grand guignol social critique that sends up Korea’s obsession with plastic surgery with a side helping of maximum carnage.

Kim is a pretty young woman often mistaken for an actress. Men are always hitting on her, and she’s uncomfortable being the object of their sexual fantasies. Her discomfort deepens when she’s attacked by a stalker who thinks he’s in love with her, and then the cops accuse her of leading the guy on by looking sexy. Even the doctor at the hospital hits on her. Her only hope: to erase her beauty by any means necessary. A big budget, 35mm production, BEAUTIFUL is a queasy
mix of body horror, sexual politics, eating disorders, self-mutilation and homicidal rage.

Watch highlights from the critically acclaimed Korean film 'Beautiful' directed by Juhn Jaihong.