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Comic farce or major assault on Korean sexual mores? Push! Push! is both. The X Files meets ER, with a portion of Fawlty Towers thrown in. Korean filmmaker Park Chul Soo storms the wards of a women's clinic and pushes humour and satire to its limits without once belittling his subject matter. Humour is used not to sanitise issues, but to reveal how staff and patients embrace the humour of situations to maintain their sanity. Revealed through the eyes of the two women who run the clinic, the focus is broadened to a vast ensemble of women in both ordinary and extraordinary circumstances.

Park Chul Soo has directed several films since his debut The Rain That Falls at Night (1979), including Pillar of Clouds (1986) and Farewell My Darling (1996).


POSTMAN BLUES

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Director Sabu
MIFF 1998

WITHOUT MEMORY

Kioku-Ga Ushinawareta-Toki
MIFF 1998