Busan film festival hit Fanatic’s director on the K-pop fans it features who – like her – fell in love with celebrities later convicted of crimes, and their mixed feelings afterwards

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What does it mean to be a fan of someone who turns out to be a criminal? That’s what South Korean film student Oh Se-yeon wanted to explore in her debut documentary Fanatic , which was a surprise success at the 2021 Busan International Film Festival (Biff) in October. “It was so touching for me to present the film at Biff with the audience,” Oh, 22, tells the Post . “We laughed and cried together.” That is more or less the point of Fanatic, which is described on the film festival’s site as a comedic true-story documentary exploring the lives...