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SUMMARY:The Bacchus Lady Screening
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 The Korean Program presents\n
 A Special Screening 
 with Director E J-yong: The Bacchus Lady\n
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 Reception: 6:00-­7:00 P.M.\n
 Screening: 7:00-­9:30 
 P.M.\n
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 Synopsis: So-young makes a meager 
 living by selling herself to old men. She 
 is a "Bacchus lady", an elderly prostitute 
 who approaches potential clients with 
 a bottle of the popular Korean energy drink 
 Bacchus and the phrase "Care for a drink?" 
 As a young woman, she used to sell herself 
 to American soldiers. Perhaps driven by 
 the painful memory of giving up her half-black 
 infant son for adoption, she is unable to 
 ignore the motherless Korean-Filipino child 
 she meets while visiting the hospital. Despite 
 help from her social outcast neighbors like 
 Madame Tina, her transgender landlady, or Do-hoon, 
 a poor young man with a prosthetic leg, 
 she struggles to care for the child. One day, 
 Jae-woo, a former client, informs her that 
 Song, another regular, has been hospitalized 
 following a stroke. She visits the hospital 
 to discover the man completely paralyzed. Song 
 begs her to end his life, a request that causes 
 her both bewilderment and dismay.\n
 Director 
 Bio: Director and screenwriter E J-yong graduated 
 from the Korean Academy of Film Arts 
 in 1991. His films include: the debut feature, 
 An Affair (1998), recognized for its visually 
 unique minimalism and the deep emotions it 
 conveys; the joint Korean-Japanese made film 
 Asako In Ruby Shoes (2000); his remarkable 
 adaptation of the classic French novel Les Liasons 
 dangereuses in the Joseon Dynasty-set film 
 Untold Scandal (2003); Dasepo Naughty Girls 
 (2006), a film about high school students 
 with cartoon-like imaginations; The Actresses 
 (2009); Behind the Camera (2012); My Brilliant 
 Life (2014); and The Bacchus Lady (2016). 
 He is well regarded in the Korean film industry 
 for his stylistic choices and diverse array 
 of works that explore the boundary between 
 fiction and non-fiction and carefully crafted 
 visuals and ideas.\n
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 The film screening at 
 Michigan State University is made possible by 
 the Korea Foundation, the Korea International 
 Trade Association, the Asian Studies Center 
 and Department of Linguistics and Germanic, 
 Slavic, Asian and African Languages at MSU.\n
 * This film contains adult content and themes. 
 Viewer discretion is advised.\n
 \n\n
 Price: free\n
 Sponsor: public\n
 Contact name: Asian Studies Center\n
 Contact email: asiansc@msu.edu\n
LOCATION:115 International Center
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