Released in Korea in the first half of this year
Silver Bear Award Winner’Introduction’… “The expansion of Hong Sang-soo’s movie world”
Released in Korea in the first half of this year
(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Han Mi-hee = Director Hong Sang-soo’s 25th feature film’Introduction’, which won the screenplay award at the 71st Berlin International Film Festival, which ended on the 5th, is the first work to be unveiled at this film festival. Foreign media poured out favorable comments on Hong’s new work.
Screen Daily, a newsletter at the film festival, said, “It shows a variety of layers, including compositional complexity, bitterness, and humor that keeps me thinking.
The movie’Introduction’, which follows the young man Youngho’s journey to find his father, lover, and mother, received a 3.3 point out of 4 on the Screen Daily’s rating, ranking tied for first place, and also recorded 100% freshness index on the rating site Rotten Tomato
Variety said, “It’s not as light as it may seem,” and “contrary to the title, this film is not an introduction for beginners, but rather an expansion of the world of director Hong Sang-soo.”
Also, “It shows the delicate work of Hong Sang-soo, who creates works that suggest more depth and detail than what appears on the surface, such as short stories or poems.” (The Guardian), “Even though this film initially feels like an appetizer, it will soon It will make you feel like eating a dish that surpasses the dish.” (Deadline) has also been popular.
In addition to the Berlin Film Festival, Hong has entered the competition category at the Cannes Film Festival in 2004,’Women are the Future of Men’,’Theater Exhibition’ in 2005,’In Another Country’ in 2012, and’After that’ in 2017.
Director Hong’s film captures human desires, the intimate dynamics of male and female relationships, and emotional changes through everyday language, conversation, and encounters in specific places and spaces and drinking parties.
Famous for his improvisational direction, he writes the lines of the scenes to be filmed that day and distributes them to the actors, or combines the actors’ actual speech, personality, and habits with the characters in the play.
With repeated subjective consciousness and directing techniques, the opposite evaluation of’self color’ and’self-replication’ was sometimes carried out, but delicate changes are also spotted after work with his lover Kim Min-hee.
After the divorce lawsuit was dismissed, he was still married and he first met Kim Min-hee in 2015 with “It’s Right Now and That’s Wrong”, and there are many scenes and lines that appear to be talking about himself. The movie’Introduction’ is scheduled to be released in Korea in the first half of this year.
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