Actresses

Directed by Lee Jae-yong (이재용)

Screenplay by Choi Ji-woo (최지우),
Kim Ok-bin (김옥빈),
Ko Hyeon-jeong (고현정),
Lee Jae-yong (이재용),
Lee Mi-sook (이미숙),
Yoon Yeo-jeong (윤여정)

Director E J-yong mixes reality and fiction
by bringing together top actresses
to play themselves onscreen.

It's Christmas Eve, and six actresses
ranging from their 20s to 60s,
including Choi Ji-woo and Kim Ok-bin,
come together for a photo shoot for Vogue magazine.

Trouble ensues as the women,
each used to basking alone in the spotlight,
must get along with one another,
from choosing dresses
to addressing personal issues such as divorce.

Interesting experiment by director Lee.

How catty and spoiled some female stars are
always made gossip page headlines.

By having the actresses play themselves,
it turns out to be an interesting movie.

One will wonder if they are really playing
how they want to portray themselves to fans,
or if they are doing things over the top just to keep things interesting.

One thing for certain,
there is no smoke without fire, in my opinion.

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Behind the Camera

Directed by Lee Jae-yong (이재용)

The actresses was a relative success,
after a terrible failure of Dasaepo Naughty girls.

But it looks like Lee is either unafraid of failure
or masochistic enough to create terrible flops.


Another docu-drama by Lee Jae-yong
after "Actresses".

In it he plays himself.
He claims to be in Hollywood and he
wants to do something never been done before.

To direct a film without being on the set.

He will use skype and other apps and devices
to communicate with the cast.

14 super stars, ranging from seasoned actors
to model turned actors... are gathered.

The movie Lee is making is about exactly the same
situation he is in.

Ha Jeong-woo plays a director who
tries to direct a film the same way
Lee is trying to create this film.

Everything is unnatural in this fake documentary.
The cast look so fabricated
just as all the situations are.

Lee is simply insulting the audience
with lazy attempts justified as new film making.

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