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| The Day He Arrives - Yu Jun-Sang, Song Seon-Mi; Hong Sang-Soo - CANNES 2011 (9-8-2011 RELEASE) | |
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| Hitman-Reloaded | Apr 27 2011, 04:08 PM Post #1 |
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Hong Sang-Soo![]() The Day He Arrives Cast - Yu Jun-Sang, Song Seon-Mi, Baek Jong-Hak, Kim Sang-Jung, Kim Bo-Kyung Sungjoon heads to Seoul to meet a close friend who lives in the Bukchon area. When the friend doesn’t answer his calls, Sungjoon wanders around Bukchon and runs into an actress he used to know. The two talk for a while, but soon part. He makes his way down to Insadong and drinks makgeolli (rice wine) by himself. Some film students at another table ask him to join them--Sungjoon used to be a film director. He soon gets drunk and heads for his ex-girlfriend’s house. Whether it’s the next day or some other day, but Sungjoon is still wandering around Bukchon. He runs into the actress again. They talk and soon part. He eventually meets his friend and they head to a bar called Novel with a female professor his friend knows. The owner of the bar has a striking resemblance to Sungjoon’s ex-girlfriend. He plays the piano for her. Whether it’s the next day or some other day, Sungjoon goes to the Jeongdok Public Library with his friend and mentions that it was the first place he chased after a woman. Later, they have drinks with a former actor who had been doing business in Vietnam. The same female professor joins them and the four go to the bar called Novel. Sungjoon gets drunk and ends up kissing the owner of the pub… Sungjoon may have spent a few days in Seoul with his friend, or it may still be his first day there. He may have learned something from the encounter with his ex-girlfriend, or may have to meet the woman that resembles her again, for the first time. As life presents itself in no more than today’s worth of time, Sungjoon also has no other choice than to face his “today”. http://movie.daum.net http://movie.naver.com/ http://www.cine21.com http://www.koreafilm.co.kr/ http://www.festival-cannes.com/ Edited by Hitman-Reloaded, Jul 28 2011, 05:19 PM.
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| Hitman-Reloaded | Apr 27 2011, 04:15 PM Post #2 |
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Edited by Hitman-Reloaded, Jul 28 2011, 04:28 PM.
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| Hitman-Reloaded | May 22 2011, 10:01 PM Post #3 |
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The Day He Arrives: Cannes 2011 Review Maggie Lee The Bottom Line A clever and dream-like game with narrative time embedded in trivial but amusing social and sexual encounters. CAST: Yu Junsang, Kim Sangjoong, Song Sunmi, Kim Bokyung, Yu – Yoo Seongjun Kim SJ – Youngho Song – Boram Kim – Kyungjin & Yejeon DIRECTOR - SCREENWRITER: Director-screenwriter: Hong Sangsoo After Hong Sangsoo's twelfth film, one wonders if there is more for the audience than the self-satisfaction of getting an in-joke or a charade. Cannes – Hong Sangsoo’s oeuvre is becoming as self-reflexive and cyclical as the serpent that swallows its own tail. When not making films about filmmakers making films (such as Oki’s Movie), he is making films about filmmakers who cannot make films (Women on the Beach, Like You Know It All). The Day He Arrives belongs to the latter category. Thankfully, the film does not dwell on creative blocks or hurt male pride, and only serves as an amusing itinerary of dining, drinking and sexual dalliance that beguilingly plays with narrative time. Out of work Korean filmmakers are currently head-hunted by premier festivals (check out Kim Ki-duk’s Arirang, also in Un certain regard) so Hong should be gainfully employed touring festival circuits. Distribution rests within the same European arthouse channels as his previous works, plus a sale to Japan. Yoo Seongjun (Yu Junsang) is a has-been director teaching in provincial Daegu. He arrives in Seoul and his own voice-over announces his plan to “stay for a few days.” Less than 10 minutes into the film, he is has already initiated a drinking brawl. 20 minutes on, he has wormed his way into ex-lover Kyungjin’s bed by weeping and wailing pathetically about how much he misses and loves her. He meets up with old friend Young-ho (Kim Sangjoong). A round of dinners and drinks lead to his introduction to Boram (Song Sunmi), a professor of film, and reunion with an actor who appeared in his film. At the bar “Novel” which Young-ho frequents, Boram takes to Yoo, especially after he plays a romantic tune (albeit awfully) on the piano. Yoo, however, has eyes for Yejeon, the bar’s pretty owner. Over a few more visits, they kiss and make out outside the bar. In many of Hong’s films, repetition is a formalist trope that signifies (among other things) the emotional blockage and existential rut of his disgruntled male characters. In The Day He Arrives, repetition is so seamlessly woven into the narrative that one may or may not notice scenes and dialogues are being replayed like the same out-of-tune piano score Yoo plays night after night in the bar. Yoo’s aimless walks around the streets are punctuated by random run-ins with the same actress acquaintance, and the film students he drank with. That Kyungjin and Yejeon are both played by Kim Bokyung, and the women are such easy pushovers (they respond equally docilely to his irresponsible parting rhetoric and even send him loving SMS with exact same wording) gesture at the possibility that this is just a male fantasy that’s going on inside oafish and physically non-descript Yoo’s head. The bar’s name gestures at the fictional possibility of everything that’s happening. Shot in low-contrast, matt monochrome that makes Seoul in winter look indistinct and uninviting, Hong’s knack for covertly studied framing draws out tantalizing visual and dramatic possibilities from doorsteps, courtyard entrances and stairways. It is true that Hong gives a new inflexion to the art of filmmaking in each film, even if his template of characters (male artist, his friend and the women he sleeps with) seem to go through the same groundhog day of sex, booze, self-examination and self-deceit. However, after 12 films, one wonders if there is more for the audience than the self-satisfaction of getting an in-joke or a charade. Un certain regard Sales: Finecut Production companies: Jeonwonsa Film Co. Cast: Yu Junsang, Kim Sangjoong, Song Sunmi, Kim Bokyung . Yu – Yoo Seongjun Kim SJ – Youngho Song – Boram Kim – Kyungjin & Yejeon. Director-screenwriter: Hong Sangsoo. Producer: Kim Kyounghee. Director of photography: Kim Hyungkoo. Production designer: Yi Yuiheang. Music: Jeong Yongjin. Costume designer: . Editor: Hahm Sungwon. No rating http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/ |
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| Hitman-Reloaded | Jul 28 2011, 04:33 PM Post #4 |
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