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Screenings
Fri, Apr 22
6:15 / Kabuki
Mon, Apr 25
9:00 / Kabuki
Tue, Apr 26
3:30 / Kabuki
World Cinema
South Korea,
2010,
116 min
CREDITS
- dir
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Hong Sang-soo
- prod
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Kim Kyoung-hee
- scr
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Hong Sang-soo
- cam
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Park Hong-yeol
- editor
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Hahm Sung-won
- mus
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Jeong Yong-jin
- cast
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Kim Sang-kyung, Yu Jun-sang, Moon Sori
- source
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Finecut, 4th Floor, Incline Building, 891-37 Daechi-dong, Gangnam-gu, 135-280 Seoul, South Korea. EMAIL: yura@finecut.co.kr.
Synonymous with the explosion of vital South Korean cinema, iconoclast Hong Sang-soo’s growing body of playful, pleasantly challenging work has earned the auteur a favored place in the lexicon of modern film. Often employing protagonists who are filmmakers and professors (inviting autobiographical comparisons), and spiked with a healthy dose of drunkenness and alienation, Hong’s explorations of memory, desire and self-interest make a lasting impression the world over. In this latest feature, which took top prize in last year’s Cannes Film Festival’s Un Certain Regard section, a filmmaker meets up with a close friend for farewell drinks before departing from Korea. Upon discovering they both recently returned from the same spiritual seaside town, the two men agree to swap fond memories for each sip. As the simple stories unfold in flashback, only the audience can realize that their accounts take place at the same time, and with the same people. Fans of the auteur’s usual cynicism and concealed layers of meaning may be pleasantly surprised by the refreshing air of sweetness that quietly percolates here among his favorite preoccupations. With composed irreverence and a delicate but potent swirl of chance encounters, nostalgia, heartbreak and grace, Hong delivers his most sincere work.
—Landon Zakheim
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