Awards:
- Winner, Best Editing, Slamdance Film Festival 2000.
- Winner, Best New Actress, Bae Doo-Na, 21st Chongryong Awards, Korea.
- Co-Winner, International Film Critics Federation Award for Young Asian Cinema, 25th Hong Kong International Film Festival.
An indolent university lecturer living on his pregnant wife's salary sits at home idly wondering how to rustle up the bribe that will buy him a professorship. But the contant yapping of a small dog somewhere in the apartment block drives him crazy ; he prowls the corridors with murder in his heart...
Through the interwoven stories of the lecturer, his wife, the pet-loving girl from the neighbourhood office and the janitor with a taste for dog stew, Bong builds a microcosm of Korean society which feels so believable it seems rash to call it satire.
Beneath the mix of daily routines, ghost stories, deluded characters and pet rescues lurks a social analysis as savage as anything in Pasolini. But I don't recall Pasolini ever being as droll as this. |