By Monica Delgado

In In front on your face, one of Hong Sangsoo’s films released last year, Lee Hye-young plays an actress who returns to her country due to a critical situation that gradually reveals itself in the film. Clearly, due to the climate, the tone, the gestures and dialogues of the characters, we are in the branch of Sangsoo’s films where there is a dramatic component (in this case, the farewell, the announcement of death), with an intention more thoughtful than his other fresher, more casual-looking films. While in The Novelist’s Film (So-seol-ga-ui yeong-hwa, 2022), another side of the coin appears.