Special Features :
Acclaimed director Hong Sang Soo muses about what he knows best - the emotional, social, and intellectual life of an arthouse filmmaker - in his remarkable ninth feature Like You Know It All. Screened at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival's Directors' Fortnight, Like You Know It All stars Hong Sang Soo regular Kim Tae Woo (Women on the Beach, Woman is the Future of Man) as a critics' darling filmmaker who is often drunk and confused as his work brings him across the country, and into contact with faces from the past. Hong's characteristic episodic narrative and elliptical reflection provide the brooding framework for a bitingly funny send-up of filmmakers, festivals, and the people and places between. Many top stars show up in supporting roles including Ko Hyun Jung from Women on the Beach and Uhm Ji Won from Tale of Cinema, as well as Kong Hyung Jin, Jung Yoo Mi, Seo Young Hwa, and Ha Jung Woo.
Arthouse filmmaker Ku (Kim Tae Woo) can't seem to direct a hit, but at least the critics love him. He goes to Jecheon to judge the local film festival, but the common practice for jurors is to schmooze by day, drink at night, and sleep through movies. He bumps into an old friend (Kong Hyung Jin) in town and drinks till he passes out, but not before soundly offending his friend's wife (Jung Yoo Mi). After Jecheon, Ku heads to Jeju to give a college lecture. There he meets up with a former mentor for drinks, and discovers that he's now married to Ku's college sweetheart (Ko Hyun Jung).
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