Hong Sangsoo

His most overtly experimental work to date, in water reveals Hong at the height of his allusory powers. The story is simple: three friends set out to make a film, and then they do it. But with bold formal choices and his signature impulse toward the uncanny, Hong evokes infinite mysteries and hints at whole worlds lurking below the surface of everyday reality.

His most overtly experimental work to date, in water reveals Hong at the height of his allusory powers. The story is simple: three friends set out to make a film, and then they do it. But with bold formal choices and his signature impulse toward the uncanny, Hong evokes infinite mysteries and hints at whole worlds lurking below the surface of everyday reality.

With Walk Up, Hong Sangsoo returns to an interest in structure that has been a defining characteristic of his work from the beginning. And this time the structure is a literal one. A selection of the New York Film Festival.

For his 27th feature, Hong holds a mirror up to his own artistic process and asks what exactly it is we’re looking for from a work of art. As his characters discuss their lives and work and the ways they intertwine, Hong sets down a sort of manifesto for his own inimitable oeuvre before exploding it (or perhaps fully realizing it) in a moving final flourish.  The Novelist’s Film is a summation of Hong’s career-long artistic project, even as it signals bold new directions.

For his 27th feature, Hong holds a mirror up to his own artistic process and asks what exactly it is we’re looking for from a work of art. As his characters discuss their lives and work and the ways they intertwine, Hong sets down a sort of manifesto for his own inimitable oeuvre before exploding it (or perhaps fully realizing it) in a moving final flourish.  The Novelist’s Film is a summation of Hong’s career-long artistic project, even as it signals bold new directions.

This brand new three disc Blu-ray box set includes three films from Hong Sangsoo.  Nobody's Daughter Haewon, Our Sunhi and Oki's Movie.

One of Hong's most structurally audacious films, Oki's Movie comprises four short films arranged in an almost nesting doll formation.  Oki's Movie beguiles as it befuddles and, in its moving final section, inaugurates Hong's interest in female subjectivity.

An almost-romantic roundelay of comic attempts at understanding ensues when recent film school graduate Sunhi returns to her university to ask her professor for a reference letter to study abroad. Directed by Hong Sangsoo.

With her mother about to depart for a new life in Canada, college student Haewon (Jung Eunchae) is in quite a state. Haewon drifts in and out of dreams and has a series of encounters in this wonderful film from director Hong Sangsoo

A selection of the Cannes Film Festival, Hong Sangsoo again works his magic in this tale of an aging actress played by Lee Hyeyoung, meeting with a director in Seoul  to stage a comeback film. With In Front of Your Face, Hong suggests that perhaps the most important things in this life are also the most immediate.