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C'est si bon (film)
2015 South Korean film From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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C'est si bon (Korean: 쎄시봉; RR: Ssesibong) is a 2015 South Korean musical drama film written and directed by Kim Hyun-seok.[3][4] It was released on February 5, 2015.[5]
C'est si bon (French for "It's so good") was an acoustic music lounge located in Mugyo-dong, Seoul.[6] During the 1960s and 1970s, the venue was very popular with Koreans in their twenties and thirties, who went there to listen to live music.[7] Among the bands known for having played there was the folk music duo Twin Folio composed of Yoon Hyung-joo and Song Chang-sik; this film depicts the band's beginnings while including a fictional third member, Oh Geun-tae.[8][9][10]
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Plot
In the late 1960s, C'est si bon is the music lounge every unknown acoustic band dreams of playing. It is where Geun-tae, a naïve country boy, meets musical prodigies and rivals Hyung-joo and Chang-sik. Together they form a band and name themselves after the iconic venue — the C'est si bon Trio. As the three young musicians bicker over their music, beautiful socialite Ja-young enters the picture and becomes their muse, launching a series of moving love songs. Ja-young falls for the pure-hearted Geun-tae, but they part ways when she accepts a once-in-lifetime shot at an acting career. 20 years later in the 1990s, Geun-tae and Ja-young meet again.
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Cast
Main
- Kim Yoon-seok as Oh Geun-tae (40s)[11][12]
- Jung Woo as Oh Geun-tae (20s)
- Kim Hee-ae as Min Ja-young (40s)
- Han Hyo-joo as Min Ja-young (20s)
- Jang Hyun-sung as Lee Jang-hee (40s)
- Jin Goo as Lee Jang-hee (20s)
Supporting
- Kang Ha-neul as Yoon Hyung-joo[13]
- Jo Bok-rae as Song Chang-sik
- Kwon Hae-hyo as Kim Choon-sik
- Choi Kyu-hwan as Teacher Lee
- Lee Mi-so as Ran
- Lee Ji-hoon as MC Lee
- Park Sung-eun as Guk ("Soup")
- Moon Ji-in as Juk ("Porridge")
- Lee Dae-yeon as Geun-tae's father
- Kim Mi-kyung as Geun-tae's mother
- Oh Ha-nee as High School girl
- Jung Yeon-joo as Wardrobe actress
- Ahn Jae-hong as Byeong-cheol
- Lee Yong-yi as Geun-tae's aunt
- Jo Wan-gi as Jae-pil
- Jang Ji-in as Mi-ran
- Lee Sang-hee as Writer Yeo
- Kim In-kwon as Jo Young-nam (cameo)
- Kim Jae-wook as Kang Myeong-chan (cameo)
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Reception
C'est si bon was released in South Korea on February 5, 2015. It topped the box office on its opening weekend, with 642,000 admissions and ₩5.14 billion (US$4.63 million) gross over four days,[5][14][15] but it quickly dropped down the chart in the following weeks, eventually grossing a lackluster ₩13,556,519,358 (US$11.5 million) from 1,715,370 admissions (halfway its break-even point of 3 million admissions).[16]
Awards and nominations
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