NYFF Review: Hong Sang-soo Muses About Eternal Questions of Art with In Our Day
Like other Hong Sang-soo films, In Our Day passes, on the surface, for simple fare. The prolific South Korean director layers weighty themes amidst naturalisti...
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First Trailer for Hong Sang-soo’s 30th Feature Film In Our Day, Premiering at Cannes
While it certainly wasn't a surprise in the lineup, one of our most-anticipated films premiering at Cannes––specifically at Directors' Fortnight––is the 30th f...
TIFF Review: Hong Sangsoo’s Walk Up is Relaxing in its Languid Rhythms
If one thing of late really sets Hong Sang-soo apart, it’s his unglamorous depiction of the film director. Appropriate to the small-scale of his corpus, these ...
Berlin Review: Hong Sangsoo Delivers Calm, Casual Charms in The Novelist’s Film
There is a small but growing belief among critics that just as Hong Sangsoo inches toward legendary status (festival omnipresence; evangelized by Richard Brody...
Kim Min-hee Will Take a Quiet Life in Trailer for Hong Sang-soo’s The Novelist’s Film
It was mere weeks ago we placed a possible Hong Sang-soo film on our 2022 most-anticipated list. If nothing was announced, anything could be expected—a year wi...
Hong Sang-soo Makes an Introduction with Exclusive U.S. Trailer and Poster
Making for the ideal winter viewing, Hong Sang-soo's black-and-white drama Introduction––the first of two features to premiere on the festival circuit this yea...
The Power of Kangwon Province Review: Hong Sangsoo Serves Up Spirit-Devouring Situations in Newly Restored Second Feature
“I always make mistakes,” says the emotionally vulnerable Jinsook (Oh Yun-hong) toward the end of Hong Sangsoo’s The Power of Kangwon Province. While her confe...
Berlin Review: Hong Sang-soo’s Introduction Makes a Deliberately Knotty First Impression
First paragraphs of Hong Sang-soo reviews often dwell on the Korean master’s penchant for self-repetition, soothing readers that narrow expectations will be fu...
Watch: Hong Sangsoo Makes an Introduction in First Clip from Berlinale Premiere
As we expected, the pandemic was not going to stop the prolific Hong Sangsoo from completing a new film. After premiering The Woman Who Ran at Berlinale last y...
Berlin Review: The Woman Who Ran Finds Hong Sang-soo at His Most Self-Referential
The Woman Who Ran opens on a lovely shot of hens. The camera then pulls back to show the garden of a middle-class apartment block where a woman named Youngsoon...