Virgin Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors

2000 [KOREAN]

Comedy / Drama / Romance

2
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 71% · 4 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 71% · 250 ratings
IMDb Rating 6.9/10 10 1654 1.7K

Plot summary

When filmmaker Young-soo introduces writer Soo-jung to his friend Jae-hoon, he unintentionally creates a love triangle. While Jae-hoon pursues Soo-jung, Young-soo clashes with his crew. Yet, just as the story appears to end, it starts all over again, this time with plenty of variations.

Director

Sang-soo Hong Photo
Sang-soo Hong

Top cast

Yeong-dae Kim Photo
Yeong-dae Kim
Bo-seok Jeong Photo
Bo-seok Jeong as Jae-hoon
Jeong Ho-Bong Photo
Jeong Ho-Bong
Lee Hwang-Ui Photo
Lee Hwang-Ui as Soo-jung's Older Brother
720p.BluRay 1080p.BluRay
1.14 GB
1280*720
Korean 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
2 hr 6 min
Seeds 2
2.34 GB
1916*1078
Korean 5.1
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
2 hr 6 min
Seeds 10

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by airen 7 / 10

This movie watches almost like a diary

I really enjoy movies shot in black & white, because they don't divert the viewer's attention too much from what actually is going on. I felt the movie was rather slow, but nonetheless makes some interesting social commentaries on dating in Korea. Whether they are true or not... beats me. Someone said that they felt the movie shows 7 days of courtship from two points of view. I almost felt like this was the "Sliding Doors"-like alternative time lines, but I suppose either one would work. Either way, not a bad movie.
Reviewed by Red-125 6 / 10

Bad title/Weak Film

The Korean movie Oh! Soo-jung was shown in the U.S. with the terrible title, Virgin Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors (2000). It was written and directed by Sang-soo Hong.Eun-ju Lee stars as Soo-jung, a young woman who is a script-writer for a TV series, produced by Young-soo (played by Moon Sung-keun). Jae-hoon (portrayed by Jeong Bo-seok) is a wealthy art gallery owner. Young-soo hopes to get Jae-hoon to finance a film that he is directing.Soo-jung is very beautiful, and both men would like to get into bed with her. As the title suggests, she is a virgin, although whether she would like to stay a virgin is never clear.Sang-soo Hong is an interesting director, but you'll have to decide whether you like his style. The characters talk, smoke, and eat out at what I think are the Korean equivalent of our diners. Scenes start and stop almost at random. Sometimes we see the same scene from a slightly different point of view. The dialog is almost the same, but not quite.One scene stops in the middle, and then picks up later in the movie. The movie isn't preseted in a linear fashion. Sometimes we see flashbacks of how scenes begin after we've viewed the scene itself.The movie is all about sex, but we don't actually see much sex. There's one sex scene that's hard to watch. It's consensual--sort of--but it's about as erotic as the Korean dish kimchi.We had seen another film by Sang-soo Hong, Claire's Camera (2017), and enjoyed it. That was a hit, but this was a miss.The movie worked well on the small screen. It's shot in grim black and white, which is OK. I don't think it would have been improved by color. The film has an adequate IMDb rating of 7.0. I didn't think it was quite that good--I gave it a 6.
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