Film title: A Good Lawyer's Wife
Director: Im Sang-soo
Runtime: 104 mins
Venue: Multi-purpose Hall, Korean Cultural Centre
Time: Thursday 27th May, 7:00pm

Yeong-jak is a relatively righteous lawyer in his 30’s who doesn’t reject poor clients and always tries to do the right thing. His wife Ho-jeong was a professional dancer, but now all she does is to attend dancing classes.

Yeong-jak who wants to be a good lawyer and husband, Ho-jeong who is bored of the ordinary life, and their seven-year-old adopted son Su-in are the three in the family. They love their son very much, but the young boy is confused at the fact that he was adopted. Though Yeong-jak seems to be the perfect husband, Ho-jeong can no longer reach orgasm when sleeping with him.

Source: KMDB

The director IM Sang-soo’s latest film, the Housemaid (2010), has been invited to Competition of Festival de Cannes 2010.

The scandalous outer layer of A Good Lawyer’s Wife can be peeled back to reveal a quite serious and nuanced core. Director Im Sang-soo has already shown a talent for presenting frank sexuality and nonconformist heroes in his two previous films Girls’ Night Out (1998) and Tears (2001), but A Good Lawyer’s Wife establishes him as a director with formidable skill and potential. Im’s reputation abroad was given a boost when the film was invited to the main competition section at the Venice International Film Festival 2003, where it screened to generally favorable reviews. Yet foreign audiences are likely to view this film in a different way from how it is viewed in Korea, where attacks on the institution of family ring with much stronger resonance.

We hope you will join us for this night, the second in our Family theme running throughout May.

Booking is required, please RSVP to info@kccuk.org.uk or call 020 7004 2600
Admission is free.