Sooner or later, conversations around the ever-growing oeuvre of Hong Sangsoo all land on the same word: repetition. That's kind of inevitable: few could e...
A Hong Sangsoo Berlinale premiere is no surprising development, but the first details on his 34th feature, The Day She Returns, are particularly exciting. Not ...
Nearly all of Hong Sangsoo's films are funny—Funny Ha Ha does what it says on the tin—but it's been a moment since the man released a proper comedy. This made ...
While effectively every Hong Sangsoo film nabs nice responses from those who seek it out, By the Stream has carried a tad more weight––the sense that, after a ...
The last time Hong Sangsoo failed to feature in a Berlinale program, Childish Gambino’s “This is America” was in the charts and Green Book was on its way t...
For his first feature of two features this year, Hongsangsoo made a long-awaited reunion with Isabelle Huppert. Following In Another Country and Claire's Camer...
Death, taxes, and one-to-three Hong Sang-soo movies per year. I much prefer the latter, and it's nice knowing we're just a month out from In Our Day, his 30th ...
Two things can be true at once. The old debate over whether Hong Sangsoo's cinema is overly earnest or self-aware was always a bit reductive––when the most lig...
An early notable of this year's Berlin lineup is A Traveler's Needs, the latest from Hong Sang-soo. No surprise he's appearing at the festival for the fourth c...
Rarely does a short generate interest like The Daughters of Fire, an ink-to-runtime ratio that could best be explained by its status as Pedro Costa's first pro...
