The Novelist's Film

NR / 1hr 32min

Showings

Lark Theater Fri, Dec 23, 2022 10:00 AM
Lark Theater Fri, Dec 23, 2022 5:15 PM
Lark Theater Mon, Dec 26, 2022 4:20 PM
Lark Theater Tue, Dec 27, 2022 3:15 PM
Film Info
Event Type:Movie
Release Year:2022
Rating:NR
Genre:Drama
Production Country:Korea
Original Langauge:Korean
Subtitles:English
Cast/Crew Info
Director:Hong Sangsoo
Cast:Kim Minhee, Lee Hyeyoung, Seo Younghwa, Park Miso, Kwon Haehyo, Cho Yunhee Ha Seongguk, Ki Joobong,
Screenwriter:Hong Sangsoo

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The Novelist's Film


WINNER - Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize, Berlin International Film Festival 2022


“One of the director’s sweetest films, registering ultimately as a touchingly sincere tribute to his life in filmmaking, and to love discovered through art-making.”
- Matt Turner, Little White Lies


“Suggests that Hong has yet to exhaust his methods of deriving significance and beauty from the most quotidian of details, and perhaps that his strongest work is yet to come.”
- Jake Cole, Slant


“[Hong's] most openly emotive and personal filmmaking to date... palpably life-affirming.”
- Joshua Minsoo Kim, In Review Online



SYNOPSIS: Junhee (Lee Hyeyoung, last seen in Hong’s In Front of Your Face) is a novelist who's grown disenchanted with her own writing. On a trip to see an old friend, she runs into a film director who was set to adapt one of her novels before the project fell through. One chance encounter leads to another and soon she finds herself having lunch with Kilsoo (Kim Minhee), a well-known actress also questioning her role as an artist. It’s then that Junhee has an epiphany: she will make a film starring Kilsoo. It won’t be like other films. It will be the novelist’s film.

For his 27th feature, Hong holds a mirror up to his own artistic process and asks what exactly it is we’re looking for from a work of art. As his characters discuss their lives and work and the ways they intertwine, Hong sets down a sort of manifesto for his own inimitable oeuvre before exploding it (or perhaps fully realizing it) in a moving final flourish. With sparkling performances from Lee, Kim and an incredible cast of Hong regulars, The Novelist’s Film is a summation of Hong’s career-long artistic project, even as it signals bold new directions .

 


 

 

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