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Plot Summary
Major hit at Cannes, Toronto, NY Film Festivals; 3rd in a series of films commissioned by Paris’ Musée d’Orsay that also includes Sundance Now titles SUMMER HOURS, FLIGHT OF THE RED BALOON. Excerpt from Richard Brody’s New Yorker review: “Most of the film takes place in Paris, to which Sung-nam (Kim Yeong-ho), a no longer young artist from Seoul, flees when he expects to be arrested on drug charges. Living in sodden exile in a hostel in the Fourteenth Arrondissement, he settles into the Korean expatriate community and spends his time with three young women who are well aware that he has a wife back home. “Hong presents their uneasy liaisons as a series of diary entries…and he films them in tense, restrained long takes that suggest the sharp, dry strokes of engravings. Yet the clumsy entanglements they reveal are worlds away from the psychological subtleties of indigenous French romances, and this is Hong’s point.”
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Rotten Tomatoes Movie Reviews
TOMATOMETER
92%- Reviews Counted: 13
- Fresh: 12
- Rotten: 1
- Average Rating: 7.5/10
Top Critics' Reviews
Fresh: Very Korean in its emotional content, while also preserving a quizzical distance that is quite French, pic is one of his lightest and most easily digestible metaphysical meals to date.
Fresh: Finally, he arrives at a masterfully deployed bit of third-act rug-pulling so unexpected that it may be Hong's way of saying we are all stumbling toward an uncertain horizon.
Fresh: Which of the protagonist's interactions are real and which are artist's fancy? Hong never lets on, preferring to set character and audience adrift within his motion-picture Rorschach test.
Fresh: Following his most even-handed exploration of male-female sexual conflict in Woman on the Beach, Hong Sang-soo hurtles full-bore into the subjectivity of the horny man with Night and Day.
Customer Reviews
Self-Indulgent Crap
Don't bother...really. Evidently no one involved in making this movie did. Why should you? Save your money.
Not for the Uninitiated
Hang Sang-soo films can be confusing for the casual movie goer. He likes to “play” with the characters in his film, showing different aspects of their personality, in a seemingly non sequitur way. This one concentrates on a Korean painter who left Seoul for Paris for a short stay. He is a lazy, smug, womanizer who will very rarely do the right thing and the one time he does, it results in bad consequences. I found the interactions enjoyable even though I didn’t really like the protagonist very much.
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