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By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4 cats
Director: Hong Sang-soo
Starring: Gi Ju-bong | Kim Min-hee
Michael says: “Hong Sang-soo is a singular and fascinating filmmaker. He writes, directs, produces, edits and often composes the scores to his films, and releases two to three every year. IN OUR DAY is one of this 2024 releases, and
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Hong Sang-soo
Starring: Kim Min-hee | Lee Hye-yeong | Mi-So Park | Seo Younghwa | Yunhee Cho
Diane says: “A short but meaty film by Hong Sang-soo: in a suburb of Seoul, a novelist—whose best books may be behind her—visits an old colleague who has given up writing, and serendipitously encounters a filmmaker who’s happy to have
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Hong Sang-soo
Starring: Ha Seong-guk | Kim Min-hee | Kim Seung-yun | Shin Seok-ho
Michael says: “Also released in 2024, this brief film (61 minutes) focuses on a young aspiring filmmaker who travels with two colleagues (his cinematographer and an actress with whom he has worked before) to a coastal town to create a
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Director: Hong Sang-soo
Starring: Eun-mi Lee | Hae-hyo Kwon | Kim Min-hee | Seok-ho Shin | Song Seon-mi | Young-hwa Seo
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Chan-wook Park
Starring: Dong-hwi Lee | Jung-woo Ha | Kim Hae-sook | Kim Min-hee | Kim Tae-ri | Min-chae Yoo | Yong-nyeo Lee
Vicki says: “Chan-wook Park doesn’t disappoint in his no-holds-barred film, THE HANDMAIDEN. Park bases the film on the Victorian thriller, Fingersmith but moves the setting to to 1930’s Korea under Japanese Colonialism. Park maintains the novel’s three part structure (story told
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Hong Sang-soo
Starring: Cho Yunhee | Kim Min-hee | Kim Sae-byeok | Kwon Hae-hyo
Michael says: “THE DAY AFTER is a Koren film from prolific director Hong Sang-Soo. This film that starts with our lead, Bongwan (Kwon Hae-hyo),a respected literary critic who runs his own publishing house, being accused by his wife (Cho Yun-hee)
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Rating: 4.3 cats
Director: Lee Jeong-beom
Starring: Alexander Wraith | Brian Tee | Dana Lee | Jang Dong-gun | Kim Joon-sung | Kim Min-hee
Jason says: “Lee Jeong-beom’s last film as director was THE MAN FROM NOWHERE, an action thriller spectacular enough that I’ve spotted people who usually don’t like their movies with subtitles telling other folks that they’ve got to see it. Lee
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Roh Deok
Starring: Ha Yeon-Soo | Kim Min-hee | Lee Min-ki
Kyle says: “According to the New York Asian Film Festival program booklet, VERY ORDINARY COUPLE, seen in its North American Premiere screening, out-grossed both A GOOD DAY TO DIE HARD and GI JOE 2 at the Korean box office. Relief
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