Release date: September 2011
Film director Seong-joon is
experiencing a fallow patch and has taken a job teaching in the countryside (well, actually in Daegu). He
is up visiting Seoul and wanders the streets, alleys, and bars there, meeting people
he knows, people he does not know, and people he does not want to know – former
colleagues, former girlfriends, film professors and film students, bar
hostesses, fans – and then he meets them again.
A film that features a number of the things director Hong Sang-su has become famous for: characters involved in filmmaking; scenes acted without scripts; long takes and tracking shots; a slow pace; little to no development, plot, or action; and repetitions of certain themes and tableaus, to name a few. Despite the slowness of pace and sparseness of action, there is a certain richness to the film, especially for cineastes. Hong’s love for the cinematic form, and for classic French New Wave cinema, shows through. My take: DC
A film that features a number of the things director Hong Sang-su has become famous for: characters involved in filmmaking; scenes acted without scripts; long takes and tracking shots; a slow pace; little to no development, plot, or action; and repetitions of certain themes and tableaus, to name a few. Despite the slowness of pace and sparseness of action, there is a certain richness to the film, especially for cineastes. Hong’s love for the cinematic form, and for classic French New Wave cinema, shows through. My take: DC
A drunken Seong-joon yells at the film students
to stop following him.
to stop following him.
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