In this year's Busan festival opener, director Kim Jong-kwan assembles a starry cast for a quartet of romantic interludes set in the same Seoul coffee shop, but the concept overpowers the stories themselves.
By James Marsh
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Busan International Fim Festival An artisanal café in a quiet yet fashionable Seoul neighborhood provides the setting for a quartet of seasonal vignettes in Kim Jong-kwan’s romantic anthology “The Table: Day and Night.” Opening this year’s Busan Film Festival, the film — with its star-studded ensemble including Kim Min-ha, Shim Eun-kyung and Han Sun-hwa — will ensure a glitzy curtain-raiser for South Korea’s premier cinematic event, but beyond this high-profile debut, Kim’s frothy, fitfully engaging effort will likely be met with a muted response further afield, limited only to specialist Asian showcases.
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