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Make Yourself At Home (AKA: Fetish) (DVD) (First Press Edition) (Korea Version) DVD Region 3

Song Hye Kyo (Actor) | Margaret Monaghan (Actor) | Sohn Soo Pum (Director)
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Popular actress Song Hye Kyo makes her US film debut in the 2008 thriller Make Yourself At Home, also known as Fetish. Directed by Soopum Sohn, the co-production combines elements of culture clash, the occult, and femme fatale seduction into an intriguing indie drama about terror in suburbia. Released in Korea in 2010, thriller Make Yourself At Home sees Song Hye Kyo taking on a chilling, challenging role very different from the romantic heroines she's better known for.

All seems well when Korean-America lawyer Peter (Rob Yang) brings his mysterious new Korean wife Sookhy (Song Hye Kyo) home to suburban New Jersey. Speaking little English, she remains quiet and withdrawn in the face of her new surroundings and her pushy mother-in-law (Jane Kyoto Lu). After fate cuts their marriage short, Sookhy's shamanistic roots gradually awaken as she forges an increasingly close and creepy connection with the couple (Arno Frisch and Athena Currey) next door.

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Product Title: Make Yourself At Home (AKA: Fetish) (DVD) (First Press Edition) (Korea Version) 戀物 (DVD) (初回版) (韓國版) 恋物 (DVD) (初回版) (韩国版) フェティッシュ (DVD)(初回版)(韓国版) 페티쉬 (DVD) (초회판) (한국판)
Artist Name(s): Song Hye Kyo (Actor) | Margaret Monaghan (Actor) 宋 慧喬 (Actor) | Margaret Monaghan (Actor) 宋 慧乔 (Actor) | Margaret Monaghan (Actor) ソン・ヘギョ (Actor) | Margaret Monaghan (Actor) 송 혜교 (Actor) | 마가렛 모나그핸 (Actor)
Director: Sohn Soo Pum Sohn Soo Pum Sohn Soo Pum Sohn Soo Pum 손수범
Release Date: 2011-03-17
Language: English, Korean
Subtitles: English, Korean
Place of Origin: United States, South Korea
Picture Format: NTSC What is it?
Disc Format(s): DVD
Region Code: 3 - South East Asia (including Hong Kong, S. Korea and Taiwan) What is it?
Rating: III
Publisher: Eos
Other Information: 1-Disc
Shipment Unit: 1 What is it?
YesAsia Catalog No.: 1024143673

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페티쉬 (DVD) (초회판) (한국판)

*Screen Format: Anamorphic Widescreen 1.85:1
*Sound Mix: Dolby digital 5.1
*Extras: 예고편

*Director: 손수범

* 배우 송혜교의 첫 해외 진출작<페티쉬>, 청순한 그녀의 팜므파탈적 매력에 눈뜨다!!
* 세계 각종 영화제를 뜨겁게 달군 한미합작 글로벌 프로젝트
* 서양을 배경으로 동양적인 소재를 풀어낸 색다른 심리스릴러!!

● Synopsis
집안 대대로 계승된 세습무당의 피를 이어받은 여인 숙희(송혜교). 그녀는 무속인으로서의 운명을 피하기 위해 한국계 미국인 피터(롭 양)와 중매결혼 후 도망치듯 미국으로 떠난다.
모든 것이 낯설기만 한 환경에서 숙희는 독실한 기독교 신자인 남편과 시어머니(준 교토 루)를 따라 교회에도 나가고 옆집에 사는 젊은 부부 존(아노 프리쉬)과 줄리(애쉬나 커리)와도 자주 어울리며 미국에서 새로운 삶을 시작하기 위해 노력한다. 그러나 무당으로서의 운명은 어김없이 숙희의 발목을 붙잡고 무당의 주변인들은 죽음을 맞는다는 속설처럼 갑작스럽게 남편과 시어머니를 잃게 된다. 이제 숙희는 자신을 향해 점점 좁혀져 오는 운명의 그늘에서 벗어나기 위해 자신을 버리고 이웃집 여인 줄리의 모든 것을 따라 하며 숨겨져 있던 욕망에 눈뜨기 시작하는데……
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Professional Review of "Make Yourself At Home (AKA: Fetish) (DVD) (First Press Edition) (Korea Version)"

April 7, 2011

Offbeat suburban indie chiller Make Yourself at Home marks the US film debut of popular Korean actress Song Hye Kyo, and sees her tackling a very different role to the kind of romantic comedy princess she played in the likes of television series Hotelier and Full House. Originally shot back in 2008 and released in Korea in 2010, the film was the first feature outing for director Sohn Soo Pum, who also co-wrote the script with Margaret Monaghan. The film also goes by the alternate title Fetish, a somewhat misleading moniker which seems to suggest explicit content, as while it is a fairly perverse affair, the focus is more on cultural differences and psychological tension than anything titillating.

After a strange opening scene involving Korean Shamanism and possession, the film begins with Korean-America lawyer Peter (Rob Yang, recently in Hollywood science fiction thriller The Adjustment Bureau) arriving home in suburban New Jersey with his new Korean wife Sookhy (Song Hye Kyo), who he met through a matching agency. Sookhy has trouble settling into her new life, being unable to speak much English and being constantly undermined by Peter's horribly pushy mother (played by Jane Kyoto Lu, who showed up in a few episodes of Lost). After a tragic accident, she finds herself spending more and more time with John (Arno Frisch, who some viewers may remember from Michael Haneke's controversial 1997 outing Funny Games) and Julie (Athena Currey, Remember Me) the seemingly happy couple next door, though her relationship with them soon takes a turn for the sinister as her sexuality blooms and dark secrets from her past emerge.

Make Yourself at Home is a hard film to categorise, containing elements of horror, psychological thriller, relationship drama and more. This works in its favour, and ultimately it can perhaps be best described as an exploration of cultural clashes and tensions, with Sohn Soo Pum effectively using the premise as a somewhat far out metaphor for fitting in. It works very well in this respect, following Sookhy as she faces a variety of challenges and difficulties, coming up against barriers of language, behaviour, morality and expectations, not only with her Western neighbours, but more interestingly with her Korean-American husband and mother in law. The theme of identity becomes increasingly important, and Sohn successfully gets the point across in inventive fashion, bringing things to a fascinating, if bizarre conclusion.

It's fair to say that the plot is largely secondary to other concerns, and viewers expecting a more straightforward narrative driven thriller may be a little disappointed. The plot itself is fairly obscure, and quite frequently takes odd leaps forward without too much in the way of explanations. This seems to be entirely on purpose, with ambiguity being the order of the day and with the script being pointedly awkward, featuring oddly stilted dialogue and strange situations. This actually sits well with the themes, leaving the viewer feeling alienated and pressured along with Sookhy, and it gives the film an effectively unsettling feel, with a constant suggestion of something unpleasant lurking behind the suburban facade. In this too Sohn doesn't lay things on too thick, and though sex and perversion do play a very important role, the film is only explicit in terms of drug use, with no actual nudity or anything graphic.

Song Hye Kyo is undoubtedly the film's greatest asset, turning in an excellent performance in a difficult role. Carrying the film almost entirely on her shoulders, she is wholly believable throughout, transforming from painfully shy and insecure housewife through to femme fatalle type figure. Although her actions grow increasingly immoral and inexplicable, she manages to remain a sympathetic protagonist, if not always a likeable one. Song effortlessly steals every scene she appears in, with Arno Frisch and Athena Currey being less impressive and at times rather artificial - though again, this may well have been what Sohn was aiming for.

It's this uncertainty and Sohn's leftfield sensibilities that really drive Make Yourself at Home, and which make it enjoyable and thought-provoking, at least for open minded viewers or those looking for something a little different. Bolstered by a fine, multi-layered performance from the excellent Song Hye Kyo, it's all the more interesting for its unconventional approach, and what it lacks in narrative, it makes up for in ideas and subtext.

by James Mudge - BeyondHollywood.com

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Customer Review of "Make Yourself At Home (AKA: Fetish) (DVD) (First Press Edition) (Korea Version)"

Average Customer Rating for this Edition: Customer Review Rated Bad 8 - 8 out of 10 (1)

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July 4, 2011

1 people found this review helpful

A weird thriller, a shock of culture Customer Review Rated Bad 8 - 8 out of 10
Unlike Dragon Wars, this movie respect the different social values between the cultures. In Dragon Wars. you had an american couple that behave like a korean couple. That's not working because it looks so fake. But it would work perfectly with a korean couple. "Make Yourself at Home" do not fall in the same trap.

It's the story of a young korean woman, marrying a Korean-american man. She wed that guy without knowing him at all, like many korean, it was an arrange wedding. But the young woman (Song Hye-Kyo) is running away from her culture, she's the daugther on a Shaman, and things were bad for her at home.

But as soon as she met her american neighbours, she became obsess with one thing ...

As I said above, the cultural reference are respected, the korean couple feels "korean" and the american couple feels "american". Thought the movie is a thriller and the motive of our main character would seem rather odd for both culture, it fails by resolving the movie in an unnatural way. It will only justify the prejudices against the shamans .
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