Confession of an Actress is a melodrama of Kim Jin-kyu, an ex-film icon and a father who tries to make his abandoned daughter a ‘silver screen star’ to his death. Very unusually, stars of the film use their real names for the characters. With setups of Chungmuro, the biggest film venue ever in Korea, the film has self-reflective aspect of film production by frequently showing scenes from film productions. This modernist perspective and form are peculiarly mixed with pathos of paternal love and narrational conventionality.
 In showing a woman who becomes a ‘silver legend’ from a waitress in an old, shabby restaurant with help of father, Confession of an Actress reveals social embodiment of an ‘actress’. Interestingly, the process of making actress is done in ‘discourses on actress’, addressed by male director, of male producer and most importantly of her father (and her predecessor as well). A speedy montage sequence of Jung-im who is reborn as an actress based on father’s narration of reading his letter shows power of discourse as social disciplines and its gendered politics. (Kwon Eun-sun)