Lee Yoon-Ki’s Ad Lib Night was easily the best film I’d seen at the San Francisco International Film Festival (after Pedro Costa’s Colossal Youth). It’s a rather moving character study, but I was caught off guard by the initial almost-comic premise: a young woman is stopped in the street by two strange men who ask her to do a favor — pretend to be the estranged daughter of an old man at his deathbed. Surprisingly, she agrees, and off the film goes, as it segues imperceptibly from an emphasis on the impenetrable protagonist to the harder work of familial mourning and squabbling.
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