Like You Know it All

LIKE YOU KNOW IT ALL (2009) - Sept. 11, 2009
About the random exploits of a Korean movie director -- first at a remote film festival, then a few other random places, this was pretty much interminable. It started out decently enough, but the completely aimless, random vibe eventually wore me down. It was essentially just a series of vignettes, completely random encounters, without even the vaguest notion of a plot -- which isn't necessarily a problem, but the main character wasn't particularly interesting, nor were the situations he found himself in. There was actually a point about an hour into the film, when the director leaves the film festival, where it seems like the movie should be wrapping up (I even saw a bunch of people checking their watch at this point). It goes on for another hour. Then there's Sang-soo Hong's bizarre directorial style, which finds him frequently and obtrusively zooming in and out to adjust the frame right in the middle of scenes (and not in that faux-documentary type of way that seems to be a bit of a fad right now, just random zooms). *1/2