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5 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 100Time OutKeith UhlichTime OutKeith UhlichFilmmakers from Jacques Rivette to Hou Hsiao-hsien have treated the City of Light like Alice’s rabbit hole; writer-director Hong Sang-soo similarly embraces the fantasy, but goes one step further in this extraordinary character study by fully erasing the line that separates the actual from the fictional.
- 80VarietyDerek ElleyVarietyDerek ElleyVery Korean in its emotional content, while also preserving a quizzical distance that is quite French, picture is one of his lightest and most easily digestible metaphysical meals to date.
- 80Village VoiceVillage VoiceSome of it is hilarious, some sad, all filtered through Hong's inimitably wry take on the unbearable lightness of being . . . himself.
- 70The Hollywood ReporterThe Hollywood ReporterRegardless of critics' assertion of a change in style, Hong core group of intellectual admirers will still find pleasure in his cerebral film language, nuanced dialogue, and droll observations of a Korean abroad.
- 50The New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisThe New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisKorean director Hong Sang-soo unleashes yet another emotionally stunted antihero in Night and Day, a rambling study of male arrested development.