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Daytime Drinking

Not sool

YOUNG-SEOK NOH
South Korea, 2008, 116 minutes, Color

A sweeter, vodka-type distilled liquor of about 20 percent alcohol by volume, Soju is the prevalent South Korean adult beverage of choice and the fuel powering the wryly funny slacker comedy Daytime Drinking. Distraught over a recent break-up in Seoul, Hyeok-jin is goaded by a trio of drinking buddies led by Gi-sang to meet them in the drab wintry mountain town of Jeongseon for some "barbeque and booze." When the hung-over chums bail on him, the love-lorn recent college grad becomes involved in an increasingly absurd chain of Soju-drenched events with eccentric strangers and locals. Constricted by the culture's elaborate imbibing rituals and poor bus service, Hyeok-jin just can't seem to get himself back to Seoul. Peppered with drily funny jump cuts and an air of elaborate mischievousness, Daytime Drinking is the debut of producer-director-writer-editor Young-Seok Noh, whose sense of comic timing is both advanced and welcome.—Eddie Cockrell

In Korean with English subtitles

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