WNDX Feature Documentary: Feet in Water, Head on Fire
Pay What You Can
Dir. Randall Park
2023, USA, 92 min
English and Korean with subtitles
Ben, a struggling filmmaker, lives in Berkeley, California, with his girlfriend, Miko, who works for a local Asian American film festival. When he’s not managing an arthouse movie theater as his day job, Ben spends his time obsessing over unavailable blonde women, watching Criterion Collection DVDs, and eating in diners with his best friend Alice, a queer grad student with a serial dating habit. When Miko moves to New York for an internship, Ben is left to his own devices, and begins to explore what he thinks he might want.
Presented with the support of McNally Robinson Booksellers.
“A wickedly funny, absorbing character study.” – Robert Daniels, RogerEbert.com
“The movie is funny and touching, with a star-making performance by Min and a script full of lovely, self-aware little touches.” – Devika Girish, New York Times
