Top star Song Hye Kyo's Hollywood advancement project will make its premiere at this year's Pusan International Film Festival. Originally titled 'Fetish' but now changed to'Make Yourself at Home,' the film will have its first ever public viewing at this year's Pusan International Film Festival's gala presentation. Officials revealed the news during a press conference held on the 9th in Seoul at Gwanghwamun's Press Center. A project jointly funded by the U.S. and Korea, 'Make Yourself at Home' is also director Soon Soo Bum's (graduate of New York University) first feature-length film. In this film, Song Hye Kyo takes the role of a sorceress named 'Sookhy' who has an innate disposition. The story begins when Korean American 'Peter' (Rob Yang) marries Sookhy through a marriage broker. Beautiful yet a bit strange, Sookhy is a woman who posseses special powers which runs in her family. She relocates to the U.S. in hopes of avoiding the spiritual powers but finds herself unable to escape it. This year's Pusan International Film Festival will be held from October 2nd to 10th. PIFF Note [Make yourself at Home] is feature debut of the director Soopum Sohn, who was invited to PIFF and Cannes with his short [Island to Island] in 2000. The film has been noted since its early production stage starring the celebrated Korean actress Song Hye Kyo. In the upper class suburbs of New Jersey, Korean-American Peter is starting a new life with his mysterious bride, Sookhy, whom he met through a marriage broker in Korea. She chose this foreign country to avoid the power of shamanism, but her fate doesn’t let her run way from it. The film portraits church-based Korean communities in states, where the traditional values are rather ignored by American pragmatism and conflict arises between two different cultures-orient and occident. The two cultures get close and wrecked, just as Sookhy tries to be American woman imitating her neighbor Julie. [Make Yourself at Home] surprises and confuses the audience with its complexities of cultural context and religious madness. Credit: Songhyegyo
