'Final Interview': Jo Yi-hyun, Kim Jae-won, Kang Yoo-seok and Bae Kang-hee head to theaters... “The audience is the seventh applicant”

[Financial News] ‘Final Interview,’ a film that combines the realistic subject of job hunting with mystery and suspense, will hold stage greetings at major theaters in Seoul ahead of its release on November 4.
On the 20th, according to the film’s investor and distributor, Next Entertainment World (NEW), the stage greetings in the week before release will take place over two days, October 31 and November 1. On October 31, director Kim Jung-hoon and actors Jo Yi-hyun, Kim Jae-won and Bae Kang-hee will visit Megabox COEX, followed by Lotte Cinema World Tower and Konkuk University Entrance, and CGV Wangsimni.
On November 1, director Kim Jung-hoon and Jo Yi-hyun, Kim Jae-won, Kang Yoo-seok and Bae Kang-hee will meet audiences at CGV Hongdae, Megabox Hongdae, CGV Yeongdeungpo Times Square, Lotte Cinema Yeongdeungpo and CGV Yongsan I'Park Mall.
On the film’s release day, November 4, director Kim Jung-hoon and Jo Yi-hyun, Kim Jae-won and Bae Kang-hee will visit CGV Yongsan I'Park Mall, Megabox COEX and Lotte Cinema World Tower to thank audiences.
Stage greetings will continue over the opening weekend. On November 7, director Kim Jung-hoon and Jo Yi-hyun, Kim Jae-won and Bae Kang-hee will visit CGV Wangsimni, Lotte Cinema Konkuk University Entrance and World Tower, and Megabox COEX. On the 8th, director Kim Jung-hoon, Jo Yi-hyun and Bae Kang-hee will meet audiences at CGV Yongsan I'Park Mall, Cine Q Sindorim, CGV Yeongdeungpo Times Square and Lotte Cinema Yeongdeungpo.
‘Final Interview’ tells the story of six applicants gathered in a final interview room who begin to suspect one another and fall into confusion after finding mysterious envelopes containing revelations about each of them.

The film is directed by Kim Jung-hoon, whose credits include Petty Romance, The Accidental Detective and The Pirates: The Last Royal Treasure. ‘Final Interview’ builds on the premise that the applicants themselves choose the final successful candidate, adding mysterious envelopes of revelations. Surveillance cameras installed all around heighten the pressure in the interview room, while the truths revealed each time an envelope is opened shake up the characters’ relationships.
Director Kim explained through the production company, “If typical locked-room mysteries are films about finding the culprit, ‘Final Interview’ is a film about finding the truth hidden behind the facts.” By delving into the truth revealed through the disclosures and the stories of the people behind them, the film stages a psychological battle unlike those in conventional mysteries.
At the heart of the psychological battle is the ensemble performance of Jo Yi-hyun, Kim Jae-won, Shin Seung-ho, Kang Yoo-seok, Kwak Dong-yeon and Bae Kang-hee. “I tried not to miss the small moments when a gaze wavered or someone tried to hide their emotions,” director Kim said. “I wanted to show how the emotional ripples that began that way gathered and eventually became a huge wave that shook all six.” Here, the audience is the “seventh applicant” in the interview room.
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