Sung-nam (Kim Yeong-ho), a married painter who doesn't seem to do much painting, books it to Paris after getting caught in a petty crime, opening him up to a midlife crisis adventure come true: days of total freedom spent having liquor lunches in cafés and pursuing romance with sparkplug art student Yoo-jung (Park Eun-hye). Played by Kim Yeong-ho like an older version of a burly Seth Rogen man-child, Sung-nam is Hong Sang-soo's goofiest, most affable protagonist to date. His impulsive moral sense wreaks havoc on those around him (in one sequence he escorts an old flame to a hotel before reading from the Bible to explain why they can't have sex). He meets his match in Yoo-jung, an arrogant brat whose petulant disdain for him only fuels his horniness. In a strange land where even fellow countrymen feel like strangers (the presence of a North Korean at one dinner party leads to a devastatingly funny faux pas), Sung-nam can only train his sights on his idealized image of Yoo-jung before reality eventually dissolves it, as Yoo-jung proves to be not what she seems.  Kevin Lee