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"Razor-sharp … obsessions with physical appearances, social status and material possessions are viewed with an intelligently critical eye in The Liar." – Variety
Ah-young's life is filled with fast cars, fancy apartments and shopping sprees, or so she happily pretends. The assistant beauty therapist actually spends her days popping pimples at a dermatology clinic, and her nights dealing with her alcoholic sister and troubled brother. Her less glamorous reality doesn't stop her from boasting about her wealthy husband-to-be to her colleagues. When they demand proof, Ah-young will do whatever it takes to stop her secrets from being exposed.
Actress Kim Kkobi (Jury, MIFF 2013; The King of Pigs, MIFF 2012) proves as calculating and chameleonic as her character in writer/director Kim Dong-myung's psychologically thrilling satire of modern South Korean society.
"An incisive depiction of social obsessions, and a sobering take on a country that has cast off poverty by embracing rampant consumerism." – The Economist