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[BOXOFFICE] The Relation of Face, Mind and Love (Korea)

March 30, 2010 - 13:26 By
The Relation of Face, Mind and Love (Korea)
Opening Nov. 5
Romantic Comedy. Directed by Lee Jang-soo
Handsome, successful, and talented, life is good for Kang Tae-poong, a world renowned architect who seem to live the dream of all men. But one day an automobile accident leaves him with a visual impairment that makes unattractive women seem attractive to him. Right then, Wang Soh-jung, a homely looking pet magazine reporter comes into his life. Kang thinks she is a flawless beauty until his ailment is cured and he is no longer able to recognize the woman he has fallen in love with. All he sees now is an unattractive woman who somehow thinks they`re in love.
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2012 (U.S.)
Opening Nov. 12
Action. Directed by Roland Emmerich. Disaster movie maven Roland Emmerich crafts this apocalyptic sci-fi thriller following the prophecy by the ancient Mayan calendar that the world will come to an end on Dec. 21, 2012. When a global cataclysm thrusts the world into chaos, divorced writer and father Jackson Curtis (John Cusack) joins the race to ensure that the human race is not completely wiped out. Chiwetel Ejiofor, Danny Glover, Amanda Peet, Thandie Newton and Oliver Platt round out the cast of this end-of-the-world thriller.

Rabbit without Ears (Germany)
Opening Nov. 12
Comedy. Directed by Til Schweiger. A womanizing, muckraking Berlin journalist meets his match in the unlikely form of a children`s daycare owner in director/star Til Schweiger`s breezy romantic comedy. Ludo (Schweiger) and his photographer Moritz (Matthias Schweighoefer) cover the Berlin celebrity circuit with a flair that`s truly all their own, but a bad night reporting on a high-profile engagement party ends with the devil-may-care reporter sentenced to 300 hours of community service at a local daycare center run by his former classmate Anna (Nora Tschirner).

Veronika Decides to Die (U.S.)
Opening Nov. 19
Drama. Directed by Emily Young. Based on the best-selling novel by Paulo Coelho, Veronika is a young, beautiful woman from Ljubljana, Slovenia who appears to have the perfect life, but nevertheless decides to commit suicide by overdosing on sleeping pills. While she waits to die, she decides to read a magazine.
After seeing an article in the magazine which wittily asks "Where is Slovenia?" she decides to write a letter to the press justifying her suicide, the idea being to make the press believe that she has killed herself because people don`t even know where Slovenia is. Her plan fails and she wakes up in a mental hospital where she is told she has a week to live.

Good Morning, President (Korea)
Opened Oct. 22
Comedy-Drama. Directed by Jang Jin. "Good Morning President" stars Jang Dong-gun as Korea`s youngest head of state in a fictional film that chronicles the political lives of three presidents. It is an inspiring tale about their lives who all struggle to make moral choices while serving their country. The three are: the older President Kim Jung-ho at the end of his term, the young President Cha Ji-wook, a determined and skillful manipulator of foreign policy, and the country`s first female President Han Kyuong-ja, who is constantly at odds with her bumbling husband. President Kim Jung-ho is at a moral crossroads when he wins a 24 billion won lottery jackpot, Cha Ji-wook, the youngest Korean president in history, must choose whether he should commit himself to a medical procedure that would save the life of an elder citizen, and Han Kyuong-ja, Korea`s first female president who struggles with a disintegrating marriage.