The Power of Kangwon Province
Director: Hong Sangsoo
1998 / 110min / Digital
A film of narrowly missed encounters, effortlessly tossed-off beauty, lightly worn narrative complexity, and (of course) slurry, sloppy binge drinking, Hong’s bracingly brilliant sophomore feature, which premiered in Cannes’s Un Certain Regard section, follows the separate trajectories of a man and a woman (Baek Jong-hak and Oh Yoon-hong) traveling through South Korea’s ruggedly mountainous east, the two drifters gradually revealed, in their individual encounters, to be tied together by a shared past. “Etched with precision and conveying a world of feeling… One of the best films you can see this year… [Hong is] a master of ellipsis.” —Manohla Dargis, The New York Times
Distributor: Grasshopper Films
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