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Woman on the Beach(해변의 여인)

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Korea · 2006
Rated R · 2h 7m
Director Hong Sang-soo
Starring Kim Seung-woo, Ko Hyun-jung, Song Seon-mi, Kim Tae-woo
Genre Drama

Suffering from writer’s block, film director Kim Jung-rae travels with his friend Won Chang-wook to a beach resort, accompanied by Chang-wook’s girlfriend, Kim Moon-Sook. After becoming intimately involved with Moon-Sook, Jung-rae parts ways with the unhappy couple. When a woman vaguely resembling Kim Moon-sook appears at the resort, Jung-rae tries to recreate the fleeting affair to inspire his writing.

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Village Voice by J. Hoberman

Albeit not as textured as Hong's past few films, Woman on the Beach is no less engrossing--a rueful tale of karmic irony, self-deceived desire, squandered second chances, and unforeseen abandonment.

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New York Daily News by Jack Mathews

The two-part film focuses on Jung-rae's one-night stand with the protégée of a colleague he invites to his seaside retreat, and then with a second woman who merely reminds him how much he liked the first. The scenery's great and the performances adequate, but wake me when it's over.

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The New York Times by Manohla Dargis

Wry and tender and delicately melancholic, Woman on the Beach shows a newly confident filmmaker again working near the top of his form after the disappointing “Tale of Cinema” (2005), even if the new film unfolds straightforwardly, with none of the narrative ellipses and puzzle-box complications, the flashbacks and parallel story lines of his earlier work.

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The A.V. Club by Noel Murray

Woman On The Beach is a stripped-down, witty explication of how we all get stymied by the impulses and options inherent in the simple act of living.

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