Born in 1970, Lee Jae-kyoo has divided his career as a director between TV, for which he has made successful series such as the historical drama "Damo" (2003) and "Fashion 70's" (2005) and cinema. Among the films he directed are "The Influence" (2010) starring Lee Byung-hun and "The Fatal Encounter" (2014). In 2018 he directed "Intimate Strangers", the Korean remake of Paolo Genovese's Italian film "Perfect Strangers" (2016).
Critique
A cast of great stars for the South Korean remake of the Italian blockbuster "Perfect Strangers" directed by Paolo Genovese in 2016. If the plot remains unchanged, Lee Jae-kyoo's film does not give up an unprecedented cut that manifests itself above all in the development of the character of the characters and their interaction. In fact, in the Korean staging there is a greater emphasis on the social and economic gap between the hosts and their guests.
Cho Jin-woong is entrusted with the role of the protagonist, who in the original had been played by Marco Giallini, in which he proves to be perfectly at ease in drawing the portrait of a man with a good character, sincerely determined to preserve a fragile harmony within his family. The character who certainly has the fewest skeletons in his closet; Born outside the upper-middle-class context in which his profession and his marriage have placed him, he is the one most capable of a lucid self-criticism that makes him a loving father and husband and a faithful friend.
