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Hong Sangsoo Retrospective
June 5-19, 2020
Film Society of Lincoln Center
Beginning June 5, we’re presenting a small Hong Sangsoo retrospective with the online releases of Yourself and Yours (June 5), Hill of Freedom (June 12), and Woman on the Beach (June 19):
Opens June 5 – Opening Week NY Exclusive
Yourself and Yours 당신자신과 당신의 것
Hong Sangsoo, South Korea, 2016, 86m
Korean with English subtitles
For his eighteenth feature, Hong boldly and wittily continues his ongoing exploration of the painful caprices of modern romance. Painter Young-soo (Kim Joo-hyuk) hears secondhand that his girlfriend, Min-jung (Lee Yoo-young), has recently had (many) drinks with an unknown man. This leads to a quarrel that seems to end their relationship. The next day, Young-soo sets out in search of Min-jung, while she—or a woman who looks exactly like her and may or may not be her twin—has a series of encounters with strange men, some of whom claim to have met her before. Yourself and Yours is a break-up/make-up comedy unlike any other, suffused with sophisticated modernist mystery. An NYFF54 selection. A Cinema Guild release.
Rental is $12.00, with a special $2.00 discount for Film at Lincoln Center Members (limited number vouchers). 50% of proceeds will support Film at Lincoln Center.
Opens June 12 – NYC Exclusive of the U.S. Theatrical Premiere!
Hill of Freedom / Jayuui Eondeok 자유의 언덕
Hong Sangsoo, South Korea, 2014, 66m
Korean and English with English subtitles
Kwon (Seo Young-hwa) returns to Seoul from a restorative stay in the mountains. She is given a packet of letters left by Mori (Ryo Kase), who has come back from Japan to propose to her. As she walks down a flight of stairs, Kwon drops and scatters the letters, all of which are undated. When she reads them, she has to make sense of the chronology… and so must we. Alternately funny and haunting, Hill of Freedom is a series of disordered scenes based on the letters, echoing the cultural dislocation felt by Mori as he tries to make himself understood in halting English. At what point did he drink himself into a lonely stupor? Did he sleep with the waitress from the Hill of Freedom café (Moon So-ri) before or after he despaired of seeing Kwon again? Sixteen films into a three-decade career, Hong has achieved a rare simplicity in his storytelling, allowing for an ever-increasing psychological richness and complexity. An NYFF52 selection. A Grasshopper Film release.
Rental is $12.00, with a special $2.00 discount for Film at Lincoln Center Members. 50% of proceeds will support Film at Lincoln Center.
Opens June 19 – New Restoration! NYC Exclusive
Woman on the Beach 해변의 여인
Hong Sangsoo, South Korea, 2006, 127m
Korean with English subtitles
After creatively blocked filmmaker Jung-rae (Seung-woo Kim) convinces his friend to join him on a brief holiday to finish a script, he begins an affair with the friend’s girlfriend, Mun-suk (Hyun-jung Go). Customary in Hong’s doubled-narrative structures, the film’s second half inverts this triangle when Jung-rae returns to the beach and meets Sun-hee (Seon-mi Song), a woman who resembles Mun-suk. Woman on the Beach revisits the kind of listless coastal resort town of The Power of Kangwon Province, but now during their wintry offseason, where Hong deftly captures the subtle layers of monotony, humor and sadness that connect Jung-rae’s two trips. An NYFF44 selection. A Grasshopper Film release.
Rental is $12.00, with a special $2.00 discount for Film at Lincoln Center Members. 50% of proceeds will support Film at Lincoln Center.
June 12th – A select Hong Sangsoo retro:
Exclusive offer for a week only, Cinema Guild is making the following Hong Sangsoo titles available to rent on their channel at a discounted price: 풀잎들/Grass (2019) $1.99, 강변호텔/Hotel by the River (2019) $1.99, 그후/The Day After (2018) $0.99, 클레어의 카메라/Claire’s Camera (2017) $0.99, 밤의 해변에서 혼자/On the Beach at Night Alone (2017) $0.99, 북촌방향/The Day He Arrives (2011) $0.99. http://store.cinemaguild.com/homevideo/SFNT.html
Additionally, Grasshopper will offer 50% off their rental or purchase of 지금은맞고그때는틀리다/Right Now, Wrong Then (2015) on selected platforms.
