IN FRONT OF YOUR FACE
Price: $395.00 Code: 2649 |
Directed by Hong Sangsoo
2021, 85 minutes
After years living abroad, former actress Sangok (Lee Hyeyoung) is back in Seoul, staying with her sister Jeongok (Cho Yunhee) in her high-rise apartment. The siblings sleep late, have breakfast in a cafe and visit a restaurant owned by Jeongok's son. But as the details of Sangok's day accrue (a spill on her blouse, an encounter at her childhood home), it becomes clear that there is much she is not revealing. And these mysterious circumstances have something to do with her decision to meet with film director Jaewon (Kwon Haehyo) to discuss her return to acting.
In her first role for Hong, Lee, a prominent theater and screen actress in South Korea, makes a captivating return to the big screen. With In Front of Your Face, Hong suggests that perhaps the most important things in this life are also the most immediate.
Subjects & Collections
Festivals & Awards
Special Selection - Cannes Film Festival
Official Selection - New York Film Festival
Reviews
"Intimate and fluid… [a] serenely passionate deployment of art as resistance to mortality."
-Richard Brody, The New Yorker
"Hong’s gift resides in part in his ability to inform potentially tedious tangents with a rapturous and seemingly effortlessly achieved intensity."
-Chuck Bowen, Slant
"One of the very best films from one of the very best filmmakers working today."
-Joshua Brunsting, Criterion Cast
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