Yourself and Yours

Director: Hong Sang-soo

2016 / 86min / DCP

When painter Young-soo (Kim Joo-hyuk) gets word that his girlfriend, Min-jung (Lee Yoo-young), has been spotted having drinks with a mystery man, the ensuing quarrel ends in a break-up. What follows is the sort of playfully disjointed narrative puzzle that’s Hong’s specialty, with Young-soo chasing Min-jung while Min-jung—or a woman who could be her doppelganger or twin—endures a string of random encounters with strangers, all men she’s never met before, though some of them insist that they’ve met her. “Very simply constructed and utterly engrossing… [Hong] puts you in tune with the world of his sad-sack characters immediately, and their rhythm becomes the rhythm of the story.”—The New York Times