In Front of Your Face

Director: Hong Sangsoo

2021 / 85min / DCP

Back in South Korea after years abroad, ex-actress Lee Hyeyoung reconnects with the past she left behind as, over the course of one day in Seoul, she encounters her younger sister (Cho Yunhee), a shopkeeper living in her childhood home, and a famous film director who urges her to return to the screen. Hong’s exquisitely economical character study is steeped in the ruefulness, melancholy—and resilience—of middle age. “Intimate and fluid… [a] serenely passionate deployment of art as resistance to mortality.”—The New Yorker