The Infidel posted a couple of disturbing reviews of Korean documentaries he was forced to endure 
during the Pusan International Film Festival. Here’s part of his write up on the Lee Ho-sup’s film And Thereafter:
The synopsis indicated a more personal look at the life of a former Army vet and his Korean wife, and the difficulties of their life in America. It was freaks on film! After the first film, I expected a film full of personal interviews, but the second one also lacked context and facts. Someone picked the weirdest, most pathetic people to represent an entire class of people. This family would be weird in any country: pedophilia, prison sentences, and just too many skeletons. At times the dialogue seemed scripted or coached, and one scene at dinner looked staged. A colleague described it as a Danielle Steele novel, but I’m not sure if it was fiction or just weird. I could analyze the film, but that’s not why I picked it. I have noticed a trend over the years for the selections concerning America to try to present an anti-Hollywood, unidealized portrait of American life. This one definitely did that without context. It was soap opera meets American Beauty in a fetish porn flick. After another terrible documentary on South Korean living in America last year, in which most of the interviewees lived in South Korea and China, and this year’s mockeries, I will never pay money for a South Korean documentary again.
We’re still waiting for Seeing Eye Blog’s account of the festival.
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