301 (1995)

Original title

삼공일 삼공이

Directed by

Park Cheol-su

Genre

drama film, horror film

Country

South Korea

Runtime

1h 39m

Rated

19

Rating

6.1 of 10 from 36 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Two women live next door to each other in a Seoul apartment building. One overindulges in food and sex while the other starves herself. The film explores how they cope with the pressures of modern life.

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What happens

301, 302 or 301/302 is a 1995 South Korean film directed by Park Chul-soo. It tells the story of two South Korean women, neighbors in the same apartment building, who take very different approaches to the difficulties of modern life; one indulges in food, sex, and spending while the other lives in self-imposed austerity. The film was selected as the South Korean entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 68th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee. The film was inspired by poet Jang Jung Ill's poem "The Cook and the Anorexic." Compulsion, a 2013 Canadian psychological thriller directed by Egidio Coccimiglio, is based on this film. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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