"301/302"
1996
Directed by Chul-Soo Park

One of the most highly acclaimed films from the new Korean cinema, this provocative, black comedy is winner of Korea's Grand Bell for Best Picture. When the anorexic young woman in apartment 302 mysteriously disappears, a detective visits her neighbor in 301 - a newly divorced gourmet cook who's addicted to food - to start the investigation. In flashbacks, the relationship between the two women is seen developing as the startling secret of what happened in 302 is revealed. "The kinkiest variation on the food-obsessed movies that have been filling art houses ever since Babette's Feast and Tampopo appeared in the 1980s" (John Hartl, Seattle Times). Korean with English subtitles.  98 minutes.

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