2017 will not go down as a great year in many respects, and unfortunately I cannot assert that film will run contrary to that pattern. But much of what plagued me in the political sphere and dripped into the personal...
Hong Sang-soo is known for his productivity, having made a film or two every year since 2008, but even his fans were caught off-guard by the 2017 threefer On the Beach at Night Alone, Claire’s Camera, and The Day After....
Like a surprising number of compelling movie protagonists, Kim Min-hee’s Young-hee, the woman at the center of Hong Sang-soo’s On the Beach at Night Alone, is an almost completely passive, reactive character. Distinguished by her severe, long black coat (or...
Like a surprising number of compelling movie protagonists, Kim Min-hee’s Young-hee, the woman at the center of Hong Sang-soo’s On the Beach at Night Alone, is an almost completely passive, reactive character. Distinguished by her severe, long black coat (or...
