A handsome Korean lifeguard (Yoo Jun-sang) is the main man/lover of In Another Country, which is composed of three vignettes. Each vignette involves a French woman (Isabelle Huppert) drifting around a South Korean seaside town and encountering the lifeguard. In the first story, the lifeguard plays a song for the French woman. In the second story, the French woman desires the lifeguard's youth and the lifeguard desires her foreignness. In the third, the French woman gets him drunk and fucks him. It's almost impossible not to be charmed by this film. (CHARLES MUDEDE)