If you loved Marathon, try A Man Who Was Superman

A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.

What they share

Both films are directed by Chung Yoon-chul, and they both carry the bittersweet, foreign gem, tender mood tags, and they sit in Drama territory. If that's the register that drew you to Marathon, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

bittersweetforeign gemtender

What A Man Who Was Superman is

Here's a film about a guy who thinks he's the Man of Steel. A documentarian reluctantly investigates the oddball down the street, who earnestly performs heroic deeds. It perhaps says something about the hero inside us all.

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