The Out-of-Towners

Photo: Clockwise from top left, courtesy of IFC First Take; courtesy of Pony Canyon, Inc.; courtesyof CJ Entertainment; courtesy of Sony Pictures Classics Inc.

Last week, we covered the local directors who dominate the New York Film Festival, but the festival is also stacked with breakout films from overseas: Catch (clockwise from top left) 4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days, Cristian Mungiu’s Cannes prize winner, set during Romania’s Ceausescu regime; I Just Didn’t Do It, Masayuki Suo’s biggest success since Shall We Dance; Persepolis, which animates Marjane Satrapi’s hit graphic novel; and Lee Chang-dong’s Secret Sunshine, adding fuel to the already scorching blaze that is Korean cinema.

The Out-of-Towners