Film C'est Si Bon

It was released on February 5, 2015.

C'est Si Bon
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Kim Hyun-seok
Written by	Kim Hyun-seok
Produced by	Kang Myeong-chan Lee Woo-jung
Starring	Kim Yoon-seok Jung Woo Kim Hee-ae Han Hyo-joo Jang Hyun-sung Jin Goo Kang Ha-neul
Cinematography	Lee Mo-gae
Edited by	Kim Sang-bum Kim Jae-bum
Music by	Lee Byung-hoon
Production company	Nogunri Pictures
Distributed by	CJ Entertainment
Release date	February 5, 2015 (2015-02-05)
Running time	122 minutes
Country	South Korea
Language	Korean
Budget	US$5.5 million
Box office	US$11.8 million

C'est si bon (French for "It's so good") was a legendary, real-life acoustic music lounge in the 1970s located in Mugyo-dong, Seoul. It was very popular with Koreans in their twenties and thirties, who went there to listen to live music performed by some of the most talented young musicians of the era. Among them was the folk music duo Twin Folio composed of Yoon Hyung-joo and Song Chang-sik; this film depicts the band's beginnings while including a fictional third member, Oh Geun-tae.

In the late 1960s, C'est si bon was the music lounge every unknown acoustic band dreamed of playing, and where Korea's leading folk musicians were born. It is where Geun-tae, a naïve country boy, meets musical prodigies and rivals Hyung-joo and Chang-sik. Together they form a band and name themselves after the iconic venue — the C'est si bon Trio. As the three young musicians bicker over their music, beautiful socialite Ja-young enters the picture and becomes their muse, launching a series of moving love songs. Ja-young falls for the pure-hearted Geun-tae, but they part ways when she accepts a once-in-lifetime shot at an acting career. 20 years later in the 1990s, Geun-tae and Ja-young meet again.

Main

• Kim Yoon-seok as Oh Geun-tae (40s)
  • Jung Woo as Oh Geun-tae (20s)
• Kim Hee-ae as Min Ja-young (40s)
  • Han Hyo-joo as Min Ja-young (20s)
• Jang Hyun-sung as Lee Jang-hee (40s)
  • Jin Goo as Lee Jang-hee (20s)

Supporting

C'est si bon was released in South Korea on February 5, 2015. It topped the box office on its opening weekend, with 642,000 admissions and ₩5.14 billion (US$4.63 million) gross over four days, but it quickly dropped down the chart in the following weeks, eventually grossing a lackluster ₩13,556,519,358 (US$11.5 million) from 1,715,370 admissions (halfway its break-even point of 3 million admissions).

• Official website (in Korean)
• C'est Si Bon at the Korean Movie Database
• C'est Si Bon at IMDb  
• C'est Si Bon at HanCinema