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HONG SANGSOO FOCUS

Quietly funny, subtly sad, structurally and formally audacious, soaked in soju and scenes of mortifying embarrassment—the name of South Korean auteur “Hong Sangsoo” suggests an extremely specific cinematic experience, one that more and more viewers are finding irresistibly addictive. (Luckily, Hong is also astonishingly prolific.) A collection of high points of Hong’s filmography, which specializes in characters who are found at their personal low points.

Stream HILL OF FREEDOM at home

The story of a terse long-distance relationship, charmingly told through a shuffled stack of love letters.

HILL OF FREEDOM

Hong Sangsoo | 66 min | 2014

Stream IN ANOTHER COUNTRY at home

Isabelle Huppert plays three variations on the role of a Frenchwoman abroad in Korea in her first venture into Hong’s peculiar, soju-soaked world.

IN ANOTHER COUNTRY

Hong Sangsoo | 89 min | 2012

Stream RIGHT NOW, WRONG THEN at home

A visiting director falls for a shy local painter, in Hong’s twice-told tale.

RIGHT NOW, WRONG THEN

Hong Sangsoo | 121 min | 2015

Stream THE POWER OF KANGWON PROVINCE at home

A man and a woman traveling through South Korea’s mountainous east are gradually revealed to be linked by the past.

THE POWER OF KANGWON PROVINCE

Hong Sangsoo | 110 min | 1998

Stream VIRGIN STRIPPED BARE BY HER BACHELORS at home

A typically wry meditation from Hong on the vagaries of memory and the deceits of subjectivity.

VIRGIN STRIPPED BARE BY HER BACHELORS

Hong Sangsoo | 126 min | 2000

Stream WOMAN ON THE BEACH at home

A creatively blocked filmmaker engages in an affair with the girlfriend of his friend and sometime collaborator at a coastal resort.

WOMAN ON THE BEACH

Hong Sangsoo | 127 min | 2006