This Month’s Film: To Be Announced
Cuisine: Korean

The Virgin Stripped Bare By Her Bachelors – With a title like that, who could resist? Alas, the title was the only compelling thing about this film. Although it has been well received by certain reviewers, I found it to be far too drab, slow-paced, and pedestrian to hold my interest. But in for a penny, in for a pound, I stayed with it for the entire two hours and six minutes, hoping that like Stranger Than Paradise (one of my favorite oddball films), it would contain a payoff in the last few minutes of the film. It didn’t.

But just for the record, the story is a love triangle between a female film editor, her director, and a wealthy gallery owner who has taken a shine to her. Both guys are keen to woo her in their own way, with the one mitigating factor being that she is still a virgin. The film is a series of overlapping scenes, filmed in black and white, in which the three would-be lovers work, go out after work, and make dates for sex that never happens. And when it finally does…The End.

So I shall continue in my quest for this month’s Korean film with The Harmonium In My Memory and Three Iron.

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