 April 16, 20, and 21
@ BAM Cinematek
The Korea Society co- presents a ‘Hong Sang-Soo tribute' with BAM Cinematek, featuring the celebrated Korean director's three latest films that have won over critics and audiences alike worldwide - Woman is the Future of Man,
Tale of Cinema and Woman on the Beach.
"One
of the most exciting and authentically individual filmmakers to emerge
on the world stage recently.... Wreathed in a profound melancholy, Hong's
films lyrically explore the limits of subjectivity, both its pathos and
its dangers, often through different viewpoints that don't so much
cancel one another out as add another tile to the mosaic of existence."
- Manohla Dargis, The New York Times
location: BAM Cinematek @ 30
Lafayette Avenue, Brooklyn, NY (map)
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Monday, April 16 at 4:30, 6:50, 9:15pm
Woman is the Future of Man ( Yeojaneun namjani miraeda) (2004), 88min
Directed by Hong Sang-Soo
With Yu Ji-Tae, Kim Tae-Woo, Sung Hyun-Ah
 
Two
male college friends reunite and spontaneously decide to look up a
woman with whom they were both separately involved. "The men's
self-immolating behavior is what's saddest in the Hong universe, thanks
largely to his duplicitous manner with narrative. You can rarely grip
the shape of the entire film until past the halfway marker. When you
do, the tragedy of soured lives is beyond the point of no return." -The Village Voice
Friday, April 20 at 2, 4:30, 6:50, 9:15pm
Tale of Cinema (Geuk jang jeon) (2005), 89min
Directed by Hong Sang-Soo
With Lee Ki-Woo, Uhm Ji-Won
 
A
young man bumps into a female friend; the ensuing evening involves
drinking, sex, and a suicide pact. Turns out it's only a film (within a
film), but life imitates art, which in turn imitates life... "Tale
expands on Hong's preoccupations with a renewed conceptual depth. While
it may be a tough film to love, it is also Hong's finest work to date,
marking a bold new direction just when Hong is most in need of a fresh
start." - Michael Sicinski, Cinema Scope
Saturday, April 21 at 3, 6, 9pm
Woman on the Beach (Haebyonui yoin) (2006), 128min
Directed by Hong Sang-Soo
With Go Hyun-Jung, Kim Seung-Woo, Kim Tae-Woo, Song Seon-Mi
 
A
filmmaker, writing his latest script at a seaside resort town, becomes
involved with two women. As ever, Hong is comically and painfully lucid
in outlining the jealousy and self-absorption that fuel his male
characters' drunken acting out. In the scene that is at the heart of
this film, he does so literally with the help of a diagram-a fitting
gesture for a filmmaker so obsessed with the geometry of human
relationships.
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