Thursday, July 09 8:30PM
Silas Theatre
333 W 23rd St, New York, NY 10011
Part of the Asian Film Festival and supported by the Korean Cultural Service in New York and The Korea Society, The Royal Tailor makes its first North American Premiere.
Han Suk-kyu plays the king’s tailor Jo Dol-seok. After serving the court for three decades, he is on the brink of rising to the rank of nobleman. But his life’s dream is threatened with the sudden appearance of young, handsome and carefree “designer” Lee Gong-jin whose radical fashion ideas quickly earn the Queen’s favor.
Unlike most films about the power of art (and music), Lee lets the striking costume designs of Jo Sang-gyeong speak for themselves, without resorting to reaction shots or exposition. The film’s traditional costumes took as much as six months to create, at a cost just shy of $1 million.
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