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EXHAUSTED

Kim Gok | Korea 2008 | 128 Min.

Material: HDV
Format: Beta SP
Original language: Korean

Script: Kim Gok
Camera: Kwon Sang-Joon
Sound: Kwak Yong-Sik
Editing: Kim Gok, Kim Sun
Music: Hong Chul-Ki

WithJang Liu, Park Ji-Hwan, Oh Keun-Young

Production: Kim Gok, Kim Sun
Print/Sales: Goksa

Uncompromising and shocking portrayal of the life of a French pimp and his wife exploited by him as a prostitute, who stay together in an almost post-apocalyptic post-industrial landscape. Shot on grungy Super-8.
The first hour focuses on the everyday activities of the man and woman. They consume cheap food, watch TV and nasty porno, they receive customers and combat each other with psychological power games.
Despite emotional numbness, the woman tries to escape. She makes friends with another woman, but then decides that returning to the man is the easiest option. The return of the other woman heralds the very shocking finale. Not for the squeamish.

Kim Gok, born in 1978 in South Korea. He has made many short and several feature lenght films.

Films (selection): Anti-Dialectic 2001 | Time Consciousness 2002 | Capitalist Manifesto: Working Men of All Countries, Accumulate! 2003 | Principle of Party Politics 2003 | Light and Class 2003 | GEO-LOBOTOMY 2006 | Exhausted

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