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An actress wanders around a seaside town, pondering her relationship with a married man.An actress wanders around a seaside town, pondering her relationship with a married man.An actress wanders around a seaside town, pondering her relationship with a married man.
- Awards
- 8 wins & 13 nominations
Seo Young-hwa
- Jee-young
- (as Young-hwa Seo)
Jeong Jae-yeong
- Myung-soo
- (as Jae-yeong Jeong)
Gong Min-jung
- Yang Ma Ri
- (as Kim Yi-Jeong)
- Director
- Writer
- All cast & crew
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- TriviaArt imitates life in this quietly devastating masterpiece from Hong Sangsoo. Kim Minhee (The Handmaiden, Claire's Camera)-in the role that won her the Silver Bear for best actress in Berlin-plays Younghee, an actress reeling in the aftermath of an affair with a married film director. Younghee visits Hamburg then returns to Korea, but as she meets with friends and has her fair share to drink, increasingly startling confessions emerge. - Cinemaguild
- ConnectionsReferences The Chinese (1967)
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A philosophical erosion of love.
Hong Sang-soo's visually astounding piece of cinema has the potential to turn into a sleep-fest for many viewers who are not used to extended sequences of silence and a lingering, loitering focus of the cameras on sombre landscapes and city streets. But those who possess a keen eye for the subtle meaning of cinema will find in these visual depictions a gentle erosion of love and a growing, rebelling, unstable acceptance.
The film depicts a young actress in Young-hee (Kim Min-hee) as she meanders along parks and pathways of foreign cities, has coffee in countryside restaurants with old friends and desperately tries to find for herself a hotel out at sea where she could spend some time letting go of her erratic, volatile longing for a recent lover.
Sang-soo lets his landscapes blend in naturally and does not resort much to color grading thus making it very difficult for viewers to not connect with the journey and emotions of the protagonist. We can feel Young-hee's admiration of the quietude in her sombre, spiritual walks in the park and her excitement on beholding the frozen lake. We can experience her detachment and withdrawal to her friends' lives and words as her resonance with generally accepted notions of love gradually fades away. We can accompany her in her dreams as she sleeps carefree on the beach drowning herself in the gentle snore of the sea.
A profound movie that in itself is a dissection of the breakdown of love and attachment.
The film depicts a young actress in Young-hee (Kim Min-hee) as she meanders along parks and pathways of foreign cities, has coffee in countryside restaurants with old friends and desperately tries to find for herself a hotel out at sea where she could spend some time letting go of her erratic, volatile longing for a recent lover.
Sang-soo lets his landscapes blend in naturally and does not resort much to color grading thus making it very difficult for viewers to not connect with the journey and emotions of the protagonist. We can feel Young-hee's admiration of the quietude in her sombre, spiritual walks in the park and her excitement on beholding the frozen lake. We can experience her detachment and withdrawal to her friends' lives and words as her resonance with generally accepted notions of love gradually fades away. We can accompany her in her dreams as she sleeps carefree on the beach drowning herself in the gentle snore of the sea.
A profound movie that in itself is a dissection of the breakdown of love and attachment.
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Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $37,489
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $7,594
- Nov 19, 2017
- Gross worldwide
- $429,159
- Runtime1 hour 41 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.78 : 1
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