An artisanal café in a quiet yet fashionable Seoul neighborhood provides the setting for a quartet of seasonal vignettes in Kim Jong-kwan’s romantic anthology “The Table: Day and Night.” Opening this year’s Busan Film Festival, the film — with its star-studded ensemble including Kim Min-ha, Shim Eun-kyung and Han Sun-hwa — will ensure a glitzy curtain-raiser for South Korea’s premier cinematic event, but beyond this high-profile debut, Kim’s frothy, fitfully engaging effort will likely be met with a muted response further afield, limited only to specialist Asian showcases.

An expansion of the director’s 2016 effort, “The Table,” which saw four different couples meet for coffee at the same table, in the same café, over the course of a single day, “The Table: Day and Night” is similarly constructed around four chance encounters that take place at a single, stylish coffeehouse. This time the meetups are spread across a number of weeks, as the summer heat cools gently into autumn, while the interludes themselves attempt to broach something more complex than simple relationship woes.

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