SYNOPSIS

A well-known actress, Sori, goes mountain climbing
 with her two friends. They happen to meet a few men,
 including a film producer who recently made a huge
 box office hit, and join them for a drink. As the men get
 drunk, however, they begin to talk a little too candidly,
 revealing their prejudices toward Sori, or, \'the actress\'.

Program Note

These are the three short films produced by
 MOON So-ri, one of Korea’s most renowned actresses. Recipient of the Venice
 International Film Festival’s Marcello Mastroianni Award in 2002, MOON So-ri
 was named a jury member of Swiss Locarno Film Festival in 2015 and is currently
 establishing her worldwide reputation as an intelligent actress. MOON So-ri
 demonstrates her intellect through her productions of her three short films <em>The
 Actress,The Running Actress, and The Best Director, which were her
 graduation film projects. These three films, all of which feature Moon So-ri as
 the film’s director and leading actress, are all self-introspective black
 comedy films that capture MOON So-ri’s personal perspective and story. The
 films all begin with a scene inside the actress’ van, where the actress is
 waiting. In these films, MOON So-ri is playing the role of an actress (also
 named MOON So-ri) who is facing a severe lack of good acting roles for
 actresses like her – a mother in her 30s. With her unique ability to seamlessly
 transform into her character, MOON So-ri shows us the casual and off-screen
 life of an actress, who is always charismatic on screen. The stories take place
 at a drinking party in The Actress,the actress’ house in The Running
 Actress, and a funeral in The Best Director. Within these films, director
 and actress MOON So-ri takes her perspective on a filmdom which judges an
 actress solely based on her age and appearance, the narcissism of a director
 who wants to create art, and the struggles of fulfilling her roles as an
 actress, mother, daughter-in-law, and wife, and uses it to create it a series
 of black comedy films, all of which are intertwined with both self-contempt and
 self-pity. [Sunah KIM].