A film student makes a film about making a film that nobody believes in. Meta-ception!
Dae-il is a student majoring in film, and about to filming his graduate film. His professor, however, does not like his screenplay. And his producer Young-jin picks on that, saying the film is unrealistic and exaggerated. The main actress So-eun also keeps arguing that she cannot feel empathy with her character. Does he can complete this film?
Writing
Script folds reality into itself like actual matryoshka dolls
Direction
Kang Kyung-tae blurs life and performance until indistinguishable
Director
Kang Kyung-tae
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Park Jung-bum, who plays the skeptical producer Young-jin, is himself an acclaimed indie director whose film The Journals of Musan won multiple awards — the ultimate inside joke about artistic credibility.
The title's nesting doll structure mirrors Korean film school culture of the 2010s, where students often made films about filmmaking to prove they understood the medium while actually revealing their insecurity about it.
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