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Life Is Cool (2008)

Life Is Cool poster
Original title
그녀는 예뻤다
Directed by
Choi Ik-hwan
Genre
romance film
Country
South Korea
Runtime
1h 38m
Rated
15
Rating
6.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A man reunites with a woman from his past in Seoul. The animated film uses rotoscoping to tell a story about memory and love.

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What happens

Life Is Cool (Korean: 그녀는 예뻤다; rr: Geunyeoneun Yeppeotda; lit. "She Was Beautiful") is a 2008 South Korean romance animated film, and is the first rotoscoped film from South Korea. This film's visual style was influenced from Richard Linklater's two films, Waking Life (2001) and A Scanner Darkly (2006). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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