Hong Sang-soo

Cannes

CANNES 2017: THE DAY AFTER BY HONG SANG-SOO

By Mónica Delgado

In The Day After, one finds some subtle transformations on the narrative strategies of Hong Sang-soo had patented throughout his filmography: variations on a same theme or occurrence, where the narrator has the ability to return to a previous scene to revisit it, thus originating a double lecture of what could have been.

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Críticas

PANORAMA: RIGHT NOW, WRONG THEN DE HONG SANG-SOO

Por Mónica Delgado

Las dos partes que forman Right Now, Wrong Then, que por su concepto evoca a la gran Tale of Cinema, permiten mostrar nuevamente dos caras en torno al punto de vista y a los juegos retóricos, que recaen en variaciones de un guión o puesta en escena, ya motivos consagrados del universo de Hong Sang-soo.

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Panorama

PANORAMA: NOBODY DAUGHTER’S HAEWON BY HONG SANG-SOO

By José Sarmiento Hinojosa

By now, Hong Sangsoo has established himself as one of contemporary cinema’s true unique voices in the globe. The construction of the absurd in the daily through a destabilization of his characters, and the hidden (or sometimes very present) cornucopia of his language and meta language of film about film …

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Film Festival Reports

THESSALONIKI FESTIVAL 2012: IN ANOTHER COUNTRY BY HONG SANG-SOO

By José Sarmiento

In Another Country sets off to a strange beginning (though not strange by its filmmaker’s standards). A young woman (Jung Yumi) and her mother (Youn Yuhjung) get together in a seaside café and have a discussion about a debt collector they are both running from.

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