Inspired by her personal experience of growing up in the 1990s, first-time director Bang Woo-ri pens a charming nod to the yesteryears with her endearing debut about puppy love, friendship, and sweet nostalgia, which premiered at the 27th Busan Film Festival.
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It is 1999, and seventeen-year-old Na Bo-ra (Kim Yoo-jung) is a high school student who makes a pact with her bosom buddy Yeon-du (Roh Yoon-seo). It all started when the latter discovers that she has a crucial heart condition that required immediate surgery abroad. However, she unwillingly falls for the school jock, Baek Hyun-jin (Park Jung-woo.) and decides to stay behind to pursue him. That's until Bo-ra agrees to play both Cupid and Sherlock, sleuthing out all there is to know about her best friend's new love interest for her, until she gets back from the surgery. As time passes,...
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It is 1999, and seventeen-year-old Na Bo-ra (Kim Yoo-jung) is a high school student who makes a pact with her bosom buddy Yeon-du (Roh Yoon-seo). It all started when the latter discovers that she has a crucial heart condition that required immediate surgery abroad. However, she unwillingly falls for the school jock, Baek Hyun-jin (Park Jung-woo.) and decides to stay behind to pursue him. That's until Bo-ra agrees to play both Cupid and Sherlock, sleuthing out all there is to know about her best friend's new love interest for her, until she gets back from the surgery. As time passes,...
- 7/17/2023
- by Leon Overee
- AsianMoviePulse
Set in South Korea during the late ’90s, sentimental rom-com “20th Century Girl” offers local audiences a generous helping of nostalgia, while feeding Westerners’ growing appetite for content from the country that gave them BTS and “Squid Game.” Director Bang Woo-ri’s feature debut follows a 17-year-old as she navigates her life-changing first love and the intricacy of female friendship, joining the list of big- and smallscreen Korean love stories set in the era, including “Architecture 101” and “Twenty-Five and Twenty-One.” Available worldwide via Netflix, the coming-of-age movie offers a memorable study of how youthful errors, however silly or trivial, can define our lives.
It begins as a 17-year-old Bo-ra (Kim You-jung) says goodbye to best friend Yeon-doo (Noh Yoon-seo) as she leaves for the U.S. to undergo a serious heart surgery. During their time apart, Bo-ra is asked to find out all she can about her friend’s crush,...
It begins as a 17-year-old Bo-ra (Kim You-jung) says goodbye to best friend Yeon-doo (Noh Yoon-seo) as she leaves for the U.S. to undergo a serious heart surgery. During their time apart, Bo-ra is asked to find out all she can about her friend’s crush,...
- 10/22/2022
- by Claire Lee
- Variety Film + TV
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