Death, taxes, and one-to-three Hong Sang-soo movies per year. I much prefer the latter, and it’s nice knowing we’re just a month out from In Our Day, his 30th feature and latest on which he serves as director, writer, producer, cinematographer, and composer. Following last year’s Directors’ Fortnight debut, the film begins a rollout on May 17 at Film at Lincoln Center before expanding; naturally, there is a trailer.
As Michael Frank said in his review, “In Our Day remains straightforward in its filmmaking, attaining depth through dialogue designed to cause the viewer to think about the value and meaning of the art they consume––among other things, the film itself. It’s cyclical in a way, and Hong knows that, adding to his collection of understated, underseen films with great performances.”
Find the preview below:
Sangwon (Kim Minhee), an actress recently returned to South Korea, is temporarily staying with her friend,...
As Michael Frank said in his review, “In Our Day remains straightforward in its filmmaking, attaining depth through dialogue designed to cause the viewer to think about the value and meaning of the art they consume––among other things, the film itself. It’s cyclical in a way, and Hong knows that, adding to his collection of understated, underseen films with great performances.”
Find the preview below:
Sangwon (Kim Minhee), an actress recently returned to South Korea, is temporarily staying with her friend,...
- 4/15/2024
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
You’d be forgiven for not having seen every Hong Sangsoo movie. The South Korean director, known for films like “On the Beach at Night Alone,” “Claire’s Camera,” and “The Novelist’s Film” has released 29 features, and often more than one in the same year. So was the case for 2023, which saw the festival circuit premieres of “In Water” and “In Our Day.” And as of writing, Hong already has another movie that premiered at the Berlinale, “A Traveller’s Needs.” A new Hong movie is always a pleasure to celebrate, and so IndieWire shares the exclusive trailer for “In Our Day” ahead of the upcoming release from Cinema Guild. Watch below.
Here’s the synopsis for the film:
Sangwon (Kim Minhee), an actress recently returned to South Korea, is temporarily staying with her friend, Jungsoo (Song Sunmi), and her cat, Us. Elsewhere in the city, the aging poet Hong Uiju (Ki Joobong) lives alone,...
Here’s the synopsis for the film:
Sangwon (Kim Minhee), an actress recently returned to South Korea, is temporarily staying with her friend, Jungsoo (Song Sunmi), and her cat, Us. Elsewhere in the city, the aging poet Hong Uiju (Ki Joobong) lives alone,...
- 4/15/2024
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Indiewire
If “Past Lives” asks what it means to move on, “Mimang” asks what it means to linger. In Kim Tae-yang's melancholic debut feature, “Mimang” follows three encounters, starring a film curator (Lee Myung-ha) and an artist (Ha Seong-guk) as they walk through the centuries-old streets of center Seoul in different points of time of their lives. Together, along with some others, they reflect upon all that had passed, and all that could have been.
We got the chance to speak to the director, Kim Tae-yang, over Zoom on the occasion of the Museum of the Moving Image's 2024 edition of First Look. Between his two cats, we talked about walking down memory lane, hiding behind trees, and the meticulous preparation necessary to shoot on-location.
Mimang is screening at the Museum of Moving Image, as part of the First Look 2024 program
This interview has been edited and redacted for clarity, and has been translated directly from Korean.
We got the chance to speak to the director, Kim Tae-yang, over Zoom on the occasion of the Museum of the Moving Image's 2024 edition of First Look. Between his two cats, we talked about walking down memory lane, hiding behind trees, and the meticulous preparation necessary to shoot on-location.
Mimang is screening at the Museum of Moving Image, as part of the First Look 2024 program
This interview has been edited and redacted for clarity, and has been translated directly from Korean.
- 3/16/2024
- by Grace Han
- AsianMoviePulse
Like makgeolli — Korea’s unique fizzy, fermented, cloudy-white rice wine — the films of director Hong Sang-soo are an acquired taste. Fortunately for him, many film programmers at repertory houses and festivals beyond South Korea love the peculiar handmade, improvisational flavor of his work, with its complicated emotional entanglements and near primitive levels of craftsmanship. The last feature of his to premiere at the Berlinale, In Water, wasn’t even in focus, although Hong insists that was deliberate, to reflect the fuzziness of its creatively blocked film director protagonist.
Thankfully, his latest, A Traveler’s Needs, a competitor for the Golden Bear this year, is not only in focus, it’s also rather watchable, even for diehard Hong-skeptics. Partly that’s thanks to the presence of Isabelle Huppert in the lead role (her third collaboration with Hong, after In Another Country and Claire’s Camera), playing Iris, a mysterious Frenchwoman with eccentric habits.
Thankfully, his latest, A Traveler’s Needs, a competitor for the Golden Bear this year, is not only in focus, it’s also rather watchable, even for diehard Hong-skeptics. Partly that’s thanks to the presence of Isabelle Huppert in the lead role (her third collaboration with Hong, after In Another Country and Claire’s Camera), playing Iris, a mysterious Frenchwoman with eccentric habits.
- 2/22/2024
- by Leslie Felperin
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Iris, the petite enigma at the center of “A Traveler’s Needs,” dresses at once to be noticed, and to disappear. Over a bright sundress, spattered all over with red and violet blossoms, she wears a cardigan of a most assertive, eye-searing green. It’s the grassy hue, in fact, of green-screen backdrops, as we notice when she fades into the foliage of a city park in full summer leaf, or is consumed by the paint job of a tennis court-like roof terrace. Nobody knows exactly where she has come from, beyond the clue of her thick French accent, and even she seems uncertain as to where she’s going: One imagines her, with that effects-friendly knitwear, being dropped into any number of imagined locations, and looking just as out of place as she does on the streets of Seoul.
But Iris is played, with typically curt, quizzical good humor, by Isabelle Huppert,...
But Iris is played, with typically curt, quizzical good humor, by Isabelle Huppert,...
- 2/19/2024
- by Guy Lodge
- Variety Film + TV
Korean director Hong Sang-soo is such a Berlinale favorite that his film in competition, featuring Isabelle Huppert as an apparently penniless tourist trying to scrape together a living in Seoul, is his sixth film to be invited to the festival since 2020 — remarkably, that’s not even his entire output over that time. He hits this pace by keeping things simple, shooting each film in just a couple of weeks with very few crew and small casts, most of whom have been his collaborators for years, and covering many of the key technical jobs himself.
He writes about a milieu he knows: Seoul’s community of writers, actors and filmmakers, all with well-stocked bookcases and even more lavishly stocked drinks cabinets. His stories, which generally consist of the back-and-forth of conversations, occur to him on the wing and turn on chance meetings, which are also pivotal in his working life. Isabelle...
He writes about a milieu he knows: Seoul’s community of writers, actors and filmmakers, all with well-stocked bookcases and even more lavishly stocked drinks cabinets. His stories, which generally consist of the back-and-forth of conversations, occur to him on the wing and turn on chance meetings, which are also pivotal in his working life. Isabelle...
- 2/19/2024
- by Stephanie Bunbury
- Deadline Film + TV
While we all know that making a film is quite an undertaking, this is even more true when we are talking about the feature you direct. Many directors often become quite critical and even embarrassed at times talking about their first time in the directing chair, focusing on the issues which define this very first effort, which above all tells the story of someone who still had a lot to learn. If we ignore the nostalgia for a moment, it is also a decisive step, often linked to many fears and truths which we are not ready for, especially regarding the future we have planned for ourselves. In his latest endeavour “In Water”, South Korean auteur Hong Sang-soo tells a story dealing with these issues, about a group of young people trying to make their first movie, which is also about a tale about the purpose of art, for ourselves...
- 11/11/2023
- by Rouven Linnarz
- AsianMoviePulse
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