Regardless of critics' assertion of a change in style, Hong core group of intellectual admirers will still find pleasure in his cerebral film language, nuanced dialogue, and droll observations of a Korean abroad.
Night and Day(밤과 낮)
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Korea · 2008
2h 24m
Director Hong Sang-soo
Starring Kim Young-ho, Park Eun-hye, Hwang Su-jeong, Ki Joo-bong
Genre Drama
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Kim Seong-Nam is a painter in his forties who travels to Paris to escape an arrest for smoking marijuana, leaving his wife behind in Korea. While there, he runs into an ex-girlfriend, and becomes involved in a community of Korean artists.
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Very Korean in its emotional content, while also preserving a quizzical distance that is quite French, picture is one of his lightest and most easily digestible metaphysical meals to date.
The New York Times by Jeannette Catsoulis
Korean director Hong Sang-soo unleashes yet another emotionally stunted antihero in Night and Day, a rambling study of male arrested development.
Filmmakers from Jacques Rivette to Hou Hsiao-hsien have treated the City of Light like Alice’s rabbit hole; writer-director Hong Sang-soo similarly embraces the fantasy, but goes one step further in this extraordinary character study by fully erasing the line that separates the actual from the fictional.
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