Maryland Film Festival Blog

Don’t miss the limited engagement at The Charles Theatre of DAYTIME DRINKING, one of the sold-out features in MFF 2009’s new foreign film program, and a City Paper Critic’s pick.

DAYTIME DRINKING opens at The Charles on Friday, August 7th.

More on DAYTIME DRINKING from the Maryland Film Festival website:

The explosion of new, exciting South Korean voices on film continues with Daytime Drinking, a crowd-pleasing deadpan comedy with dark edges that has much in common with the best American independent comedies of the last several decades.

When hapless Hyuk-jin gets dumped by his girlfriend, his friends make drunken plans to cheer him up with a trip to a distant resort. But when he arrives at the destination during its cold, dreary off-season, none of his friends have arrived — the first of many things to go wrong in this smart, hip comedy. Soon, Hyuk-jin begins to meet other people in his strange new surroundings — and while not all of them can be trusted, they all have one thing in common: they know how to drink.

A surprise hit at the 2008 Toronto Film Festival, Daytime Drinking is a remarkably assured first feature from Noh Young-seok. Comparisons can be made to such “small” comedies as Steve Buscemi’s Trees Lounge and Bong Joon-ho’s Barking Dogs Never Bite. It’s a foreign film that’s artful without being “arty”; if you’re looking to laugh, look no further than this well-written, infectious film.
This is the first feature film by Seoul-born director Noh Young-seok.

DAYTIME DRINKING appeared at the 2009 Maryland Film Festival as part of our Filmmaker Advocacy Program, supported in part by The Andy Warhol Foundation.

To view the The Charles Theatre schedule, go to their website!