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Ji-geum-eun-mat-go-geu-ddae-neun-teul-li-da
SOUTH KOREA · 2015

Ji-geum-eun-mat-go-geu-ddae-neun-teul-li-da

Hong Sang-soo
chance encounter artistic life romance alcohol and intimacy serendipity
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Synopsis

By mistake, film director Ham Chunsu arrives in Suwon a day early. With time to kill before his lecture the next day, Chunsu stops by a restored, old palace and meets an artist named Yoon Heejung. Together, they go to Heejung's workshop to look at her paintings, have Sushi with Soju for dinner, and get close. Later, they go to another café and have more drinks with Heejung's acquaintances. When as

Cinema Atlas Connection
You talk about people going through different chapters in their life; that’s very much like a Hong Sang-soo film, no? Like Right Now, Wrong Then? Yeah, I just saw that movie again the other day. It’s a brilliant way of thinking about cinema. We tried to find a way to express the fluidity and the contradiction of self through the chapters and the structure of the film.

It's a brilliant way of thinking about cinema. We tried to find a way to express the fluidity and the contradiction of self through the chapters and the structure of the film.

— Hong Sang-soo  ·  Rolling Stone interview: 'The Director of ‘The Worst Person in the World’ Knows How It Feels to Not Have a Clue'
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