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Actor Lessons (2013)

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Directed by
Kim Young-Seok

How it feels

An actor who mostly works as an extra takes a job pretending to be a rich family's long-lost disabled son to pay off his father's debt. He finds himself acting in real life instead of on a film set.

understatedmelancholicpoignantslow-burnrealisticquietbittersweetintrospective

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