Night and Day

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Movie: Night and Day
Hangul: 밤과 낮
Revised Romanization: Bam gua Nat
Director: Sang-soo Hong
Producer: Michel Cho
Writer: Sang-soo Hong
Cinematographer: Hoon-kwang Kim
Release Date: February 28, 2008
Runtime : 144 min.
Country: South Korea
Language: Korean

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Seong-nam is a successful married painter of around forty years of age. He is now standing at the airport in Paris with a huge suitcase – for Seong-nam is on the run from a jail sentence in Korea because he was caught smoking marijuana, and drunk, at a casual get together.

Seong-nam finds a place to stay at a rundown hostel in the 14th Arrondissement; the hotel belongs to a Korean man. He spends his time wandering aimlessly about the streets of the city on the Seine, or meandering through the park – for there’s little else for him to do here. By chance he runs into his ex-girlfriend Min-sun, but the unexpected encounter leaves him cold. Sung-nam loves his wife and his thoughts are constantly with the woman he had to leave behind on her own in Korea.

But then he meets Yu-jeong, a young Korean woman who is studying art in Paris and her flat-mate, Yu-jeong. Seong-nam falls head over heels in love in this pretty and mysterious young woman. He also falls in love with Paris.