Tribeca - Milky Way Liberation Front
Ostensibly this is a film about a young Korean filmmaker struggling to finish the script for his feature film and cope with breaking up with his girlfriend. There is a lot that I think I missed while watching this film because I don’t speak Korean (and there seemed to be way more nuance to the speaking than was conveyable in subtitles) and because I know little to nothing about how the Korean film industry works. So there were most likely fascinating layers of subtext of which I was completely ignorant at work.
What I was able to pick up on was enjoyable. Eschewing a clearly definable style, it instead is a pastiche of a variety of styles: dream sequences, flashbacks, silent films, comedy of the absurd, films-inside-of-films. None of this particularly impinges upon the entertainment value of the film but it does make it somewhat hard for it to have a comprehensible story arc. Even by the end of the film it is not entirely clear exactly what happened in reality and what happened inside peoples’ heads (which might be the point). I suspect this might be a better film than what I got out of it, but I cannot state that definitively. I gave it a three out of five for the enjoyment I got out of it.