Round 2: Tossup 10
In a 2006 film titled for this sort of place, a tiny white dog repeatedly scares a director trying to seduce his friend’s composer girlfriend Mun-suk. The actor Seong-mo (“SONG-mo”) struggles to shoot a short film at this sort of place in a 2023 film deliberately shot out of focus. In a 2017 film titled for this sort of place, a man who angrily asks the protagonist for the time in Hamburg later reappears as a window-washer. A man who works at this sort of place is asked for directions by a French tourist in each segment of the triptych In Another Country. At the premiere of a film titled for this sort of place, a director and his muse (*) Kim Min-hee publicized their affair. In a birds’-eye shot of two cars from a 2022 film, VFX made the outline of one of these places resemble the Chinese heroine’s face. A detective searches for his lover in this sort of place at the end of Park Chan-wook’s Decision to Leave. For 10 points, a 2017 Hong Sang-soo film follows an actress On [what sort of place] At Night Alone? ■END■
ANSWER: beaches [or haebyeon; accept Woman on the Beach or Haebyeoneui Yeoin; accept On the Beach At Night Alone or Bamui Haebyeoneseo Honja; prompt on islands by asking “what sort of place on the island?”; prompt on water or rocks by asking “in what sort of place?”] (The 2023 film is Hong’s In Water.)
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