SHIN Yeon-shick’s LIKE A FRENCH FILM Discovers New Faces

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SHIN Yeon-shick’s LIKE A FRENCH FILM Discovers New Faces

Nov 13, 2014

Writer by June Kim
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SHIN Min-cheol and Dasom to Play Leads

Director SHIN Yeon-shick who recently came into the industry’s spotlight due to the positive reception of The Russian Novel (2012), has produced a film a year including last year’s Rough Play and the Jeonju Digital Project film The Avian Kind in 2014. Without a break, he’s on the set for his next piece. Like a French Film (d/t) is an omnibus feature with four episodes of which three parts have already finished shooting. Newest member to the cast, SHIN Min-cheol has confirmed for the fourth and last episode of the film which will begin its shoot this month.

Director SHIN has a passion for the discovery of new talents which was prevalent in Rough Play with the casting of LEE Joon. This time, he has cast another idol k-pop star from the girl group Sistar, Dasom. Dasom will be the main actress for two of the four episodes, including the portion with SHIN Min-cheol.

The four parts of the film are ‘A Time to Leave’, ‘A Lady Selling Beer’, A Remaining Time’ and ‘Like a French Film’. Other casts include LEE Yoo Mee who has worked with the director in all three films previously mentioned. Actor LEE Kwang-hoon who is more active in TV dramas will be in the section called ‘A Time to Leave’ where he plays an attorney. One of the episodes will also have Steve YEUN from The Walking Dead series in the lead. This will be his Korean debut.

The film is planning its release for the first half of 2015.

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