- DIR. HONG SANG-SOO
- CAST. YOO JI-TAE, KIM TAE-WOO, SUNG HYUN-AH
- YEAR. 2004
- COUNTRY. SOUTH KOREA
- RUN-TIME.87 MINS
- RATING. 15
Doors - 6pm
Film - 6.30pm
Two old friends, Moon-Ho, a college lecturer, and Hyun-Joon, a struggling filmmaker, have both had affairs with the same woman, Sun-Hwa. Hyun-Joon dated her first but when he left for America, Moon-Ho stepped in to take his place. Now, with Hyun-Joon back in South Korea, he and Moon-Ho - now a married man - decide to meet her one more time. Will Sun-Hwa prove to remain their past or become their future?
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Also showing as part of this season: Oldboy, A Tale of Two Sisters, Save the Green Planet, Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring, The Host
“Funny, wry and emotionally acute”
“A subtle comedy of manners... the most accessible but most elusive pic yet from Korean auteur Hong Sang-soo... this fifth feature seems his most playful, and very close at times to the classic Tales of French auteur Eric Rohmer”
“Few filmmakers have as distinct and instantly recognisable a signature as Hong Sangsoo. His films keep reworking and expanding on similar concerns, dovetailing with one another to form one of the most organic oeuvres in cinema. ”
“For me, there’s something especially unique about the films of Hong Sang-Soo”