Another film I stopped watching half-way through

About one hour in to the 2016 Korean film Right Now, Wrong Then we had a power failure, but that's just as well - I was about to eject the dvd at that point anyway. What's all this about?: The first hour of the movie show us a famous art-film director arriving in a small city in Korea for a film festival that's screening his latest movie and at which he will speak to the audience. After some initial awkward flirtation with the young woman assigned to be his guide, he walks through the (strangely deserted) streets and eventually meets a young woman at a small temple. She tells him she's an artist; she's heard of the director, Ham, but never seen his work. Eventually they go to her studio, where he lavishes praise on her paintings. Then they go out for sushi and drinks; he becomes drunk (he's actually a good actor - handles the drunk scene really well, and he's good at the awkward flirtation), and then they go to a gathering of a few of her friends, where one friend puts him down mercilessly. Flash ahead to the film screening, at which he utters some inanities (later claiming he's still drunk) and spats w. the moderator. The end of part 1. Part 2 begins w/ exactly the same shot sequence, but where it was obviously heading was same people, different outcomes. Has this ever been done before? About a million times! And it can work, if the story is in the least interesting, if the character is in the least engaging, if it's not all based on navel-gazing and self-reference. I knew I'd seen another film by this director - Sang-soo Hong - and had to look it up but it was The Day He Arrives - same stupid premise, a film director arrives in Seoul to meet w/ his former (?) students and they go through a series of scenes, each w/ same setting but slightly different nuances and outcomes. For me: Same outcome; I didn't finish watching that one either (no power outage, though).