IN ANOTHER COUNTRY
Price: $295.00 Code: 2688 |
Directed by Hong Sangsoo
2012, 89 minutes
A comedy of behaviors and a study in variations, Hong Sangsoo’s first film with Isabelle Huppert ranks among his breeziest and most mindbending endeavors. Huppert embodies three subtly distinct versions of a French woman named Anne adrift in a small seaside town in Korea, each invented by a young screenwriter penning a script to avoid an unknown familial crisis. In each of her doppelgänger guises, Huppert encounters a recurring cast of characters — a horny lifeguard who lives in a tent (Yu Junsang), her Korean filmmaker lover (Moon Sungkeun), a man (Kwon Haeyo) and his pregnant wife (Moon Sori)—wanders through a familiar constellation of locales, and gets entangled in similar fish-out-of-water miscommunications, borderline slapstick episodes, and bumbling love affairs. But with each go-around, uncanny differences and strange echoes start to accumulate. A powerful meeting of Hong and Huppert’s joint surrealist-comic sensibilities, In Another Country inaugurated one of the most fruitful actor-director collaborations in contemporary cinema.
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CLAIRE'S CAMERA
A refreshingly sunny performance from Isabelle Huppert (The Piano Teacher, Elle) is at the center of this comic charmer from South Korean Master Hong Sangsoo. Intricately plotted with wit and charm to spare, CLAIRE'S CAMERA explores the power of images to transform us.
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A TRAVELER'S NEEDS
A comedy of improbable encounters and unlikely language lessons, A Traveler’s Needs marks the third collaboration between Hong and Isabelle Huppert (following 2012’s In Another Country and 2017’s Claire’s Camera). An Official Selection of the New York Film Festival.
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