Tales of Cinema: Hong Sangsoo
Tales of Cinema: Hong Sangsoo
February 3–18, 2023
“Hong Sangsoo’s films seize the material of everyday life in the service of exploring psychology and metaphysics in elegant, subtly profound ways” (Lincoln Center) as revealed in three double-bills and a recent film.
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The Day He Arrives
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In Front of Your Face
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The Day After
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Oki’s Movie
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Right Now, Wrong Then
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Tale of Cinema
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The Power of Kangwon Province
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Films - Past
Films - Past
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Past Films
Oki’s Movie
Hong Sangsoo
South Korea, 2010Friday, February 3 6:30 PMIntroduced by Dennis LimView DetailsA film school provides the appropriate landscape for this caustic look at cinema, relationships, and points of view. A “casually brilliant feat of storytelling, akin to an ingeniously wrought suite of literary short fiction” (New York Times).
Tale of Cinema
Hong Sangsoo
South Korea, 2005BAMPFA Student Committee Pick
Friday, February 3 8:30 PMIntroduced by Dennis LimView DetailsA film on two impromptu lovers and their suicide pact turns into another film entirely in Hong’s early deconstruction of narrative, reality, and cinema. “One of the filmmaker’s major touchstones” (New Yorker).
The Day He Arrives
Hong Sangsoo
South Korea, 2011Saturday, February 4 5 PMIntroduced by Dennis LimView DetailsFour characters in search of a drink find themselves in the same bar again and again in Hong’s most Buñuelian take on the desire for human connection. “A soju-fueled cross between Last Year at Marienbad and Groundhog Day” (Artforum).
The Day After
Hong Sangsoo
South Korea, 2017Saturday, February 4 7:30 PMIntroduced by Dennis LimView DetailsA literary office is the fitting setting as a philandering middle-aged publisher, his pissed-off wife, and a mystified new office assistant wonder if words can create reality—or take the edge off it anyway. “A lovely, intricately fractured story” (New York Times).
The Power of Kangwon Province
Hong Sangsoo
South Korea, 1998Saturday, February 11 5 PMView DetailsThe beauty of Korea’s Kangwon vacation hotspot desperately competes with the vainglory of its visitors in Hong’s philosophical diptych on modern love and loneliness. “A coolly bracing drama of the mysterious bonds of lovers” (Richard Brody, New Yorker).
Right Now, Wrong Then
Hong Sangsoo
South Korea, 2015BAMPFA Student Committee Pick
Saturday, February 11 7:30 PMView DetailsThe fine line between love and missed connection is played then replayed in this story of a traveling film director and the young painter he befriends during one long day’s journey into an inevitably soju-tainted evening.
In Front of Your Face
Hong Sangsoo
South Korea, 2021Saturday, February 18 7:30 PMView DetailsA former actress returns to Seoul to reconnect with her past. “Intimate and fluid . . . [a] serenely passionate deployment of art as resistance to mortality” (Richard Brody, New Yorker).