100
Los Angeles Times by Justin Chang
Walk Up flows as absorbingly as a dream and is no less pleasurable to puzzle over afterward.
Walk Up (탑)
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- South Korea
- 2022
- · 97m
Director
Hong Sang-soo
Cast
Kwon Hae-hyo,
Lee Hye-young,
Song Sun-mi,
Cho Yun-hee,
Park Mi-so,
Shin Seok-ho
Genre
Drama
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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100
The New York Times by Austin Considine
A conversation falters. Another bottle is opened. Three people share drinks and their universe is completely reordered.
91
The Playlist by Mark Asch
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.
91
The Playlist
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.
90
Variety by Jessica Kiang
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.
88
Slant Magazine by Chuck Bowen
With each new film, Hong Sang-soo’s work becomes more subtextual, more fraught, even funnier.
84
Paste Magazine by Natalia Keogan
Without the looming pressures of rent, work-from-home set-ups and casual business meetings, Hong suggests that we might just finally be free.
80
New York Magazine (Vulture) by Alison Willmore
It’s uniquely pleasurable in how self-contained it is.
70
The New Yorker by Richard Brody
The impasse implied in “The Novelist’s Film” gets a strenuous and sardonic dramatic workout in "Walk Up," which is both a work of art and a theory of art—or, rather, several theories, which emerge in the course of the discussions between characters who are themselves artists or former artists.
67
The Film Stage by Ethan Vestby
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.
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