C'est si bon (French for "It's so good") was an acoustic music lounge located in Mugyo-dong, Seoul.[6] During the 1960s and 1970s, the venue was very popular with Koreans in their twenties and thirties, who went there to listen to live music.[7] Among the bands known for having played there 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.[8][9][10]
Plot
In the late 1960s, C'est si bon is the music lounge every unknown acoustic band dreams of playing. 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.
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,[5][14][15] 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).[16]
^Conran, Pierce; Kim, June (29 January 2015). "C'est si bon". Korean Cinema Today. Archived from the original on 7 October 2018. Retrieved 10 February 2015.
