To an even greater degree than in most Hong films, the film’s scenes of casual small talk, awkward silences, polite smiles, and glasses clinked to change the subject, open up faultlines in the characters’ lives.
Walk Up(탑)
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Korea · 2022
1h 37m
Director Hong Sang-soo
Starring Kwon Hae-hyo, Lee Hye-young, Song Sun-mi, Cho Yun-hee
Genre Drama
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Film director Byungsoo accompanies his estranged daughter Jeongsu to visit a building owned by an old friend, an established interior designer. As they move slowly through the floors (an office, a restaurant, a residence, and an artist studio occupy different floors), Byungsoo has no idea what this building will come to signify in his life.
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With each new film, Hong Sang-soo’s work becomes more subtextual, more fraught, even funnier.
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It’s maybe dull for critics to praise compactness or pureness in one Hong film after another, and Walk Up will definitely not be anyone’s favorite, but it’s hard not to be sympathetic to something so personal.
Existing sharply in such a naturalistic register that they scarcely seem scripted at all, all the film’s interactions are still so cleverly designed that despite being blurry with alcohol or attraction or self-analysis, they all highlight the funny, sad truism that no one human can ever really know what it’s like to be another.
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