Last year, when I enquired about how to buy tickets for PIFF (The Pusan International Film Festival), my co-workers ALL told me, "Tickets for films are sold out weeks in advance," and you can only buy them these ways:
1. online, on a korean website.
2. at Busan bank (which closes before I get off work)
3. participating GS25's (Korea's equivalent of a 7/11)
Needless to say, I never got around to buying tickets last year!
1. online, on a korean website.
2. at Busan bank (which closes before I get off work)
3. participating GS25's (Korea's equivalent of a 7/11)
Needless to say, I never got around to buying tickets last year!
What they neglected to mention is that 80% of the tickets can be purchased by the above options. The other 20% of tickets can be purchased at the theater, just like when you go to see a regular movie! gggrrrr.
So last night, after work, I took a bus over to Nampodong and walked myself up to the ticket booth and asked for 1 ticket for "Illegal," (a French and Russian language film, directed by Olivier Masset-Depasse, which won the SACD Prize at the 2010 Cannes Director’s Fortnight) which was starting in exactly 30 minutes... and would you know it - there was a ticket available!
That wasn't so hard now, was it?!
What was even better was, after I bought it, I ran into my friends Jenna and Annie who had purchased tickets to the same film!
I'm happy to say my very first Pusan International Film Festival experience was a success! Here's the trailer:
Aaron and I are going back tomorrow to see a film! We're still debating between "Inside America" and "If I want to whistle, I whistle."
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