Special screenings of HONG Sangsoo's films

From April 30th until end of May, 2024

Cinémathèque de la Ville de Luxembourg (17 Pl. du Théâtre, 2613 Ville-Haute Luxembourg, Luxemburgo)

The Cinémathèque de la Ville de Luxembourg pays tribute to one of the most influential Korean filmmakers, HONG Sangsoo, with the screening of six of his films including “Oki's Movie” and “Right Now, Wrong Then” from April 30 until the end of May 2024.

About the director

Hong Sangsoo (1960-) is a Korean film director and screenwriter. He started his theater studies in CHung-An University but he quit. In 1982 he moved to study in the California College of Arts and Crafts. At that time he started producing his first short films. After a few years of living abroad and experimenting with short films, he moved back to Korea, started to work as a TV show producer, and in 1996 he made his debut with The Day a Pig Fell into a Well, and shocked the Korean filmmaking industry. His movies helped as an inspiration as graduation films in Korea’s film schools.

He has now released more than twenty films, nominated to different awards, among them Cannes 63rd Edition, Gijon International Film Festival, Berlin’s Film Festival and much more! Also, he has also won many awards in his mother country as well as International Competitions.

Hong Sangsoo is nowadays one of the best film directors that Korea has, his style is very particular and that is the reason for his successful career.

Here is a list of the different films that will be presented in Cinémathèque de Luxembourg and the screening schedules:

Oki’s Movie (2010):

Screening:

April 30th at 18:30h

May 20th at 20:45h

4 short love stories. Last one, Oki’s movie is about a film student and her affairs with two different men: her university professor, and another filmmaker student. Film that is represented in diverse perspectives and timelines.

“ The film feels more like an exercise than a fully developed, interlinked narrative — it’s all a bit enervating and not especially penetrating.” (Hollywood Reporter)

On the beach at night alone (2017):

Screening:

May 7th at 18:30h

Love story between a woman and a married man. Younghee decides to take a trip to Hamburg to visit a couple of friends. Daily conversations about love, life and adventures will confuse her to the point of asking herself about how important is love in your own life.

“On the Beach” feels more raw and personal than some of Mr. Hong’s other work. His explorations of the miscommunications between men and women can turn into meditations, at times acute, at times coy, on the nature of cinema and the reliability of narrative” (New York Times)

In another country (2012):

Screening:

May 9th at 18:30h

May 23th at 20:30h

Mother and daughter escape from their debt to a beach town. The young lady, due to boredom, decides to start writing a script. She ends up having three different varieties, all of them located in the same spots and protagonist by the same actors. Anne, the main character, is a french woman visiting the town and she ends up falling in love with different men. Different movies with the same structure, isn’t that curious?

"He is interested neither in conventional realism — he drifts further away from it with each film — nor in equally conventional displays of self-consciousness, but rather in staging collisions between those two styles. A movie may be a representation of the world, but it is also something that happens in the world, which means that sustaining a cinematic illusion and breaking it are equally beside the point". (New York Times)

Cine-Conference Hong Sangsoo /

Tale of cinema (2005):

Screening:

May 13th at 19:00h

Film divided into two parts. First part: a couple that just met that night end up swallowing a pill to end up with their lives after their attempt to spend the night together. Second part: the girl from the first part goes out from the cinema, and a man follows her.

"Writer and curator Dennis Lim’s new book, Tale of Cinema, is concerned with these and other contradictions of sensibility in Hong’s work" (Slant Magazine)

Right now, wrong then (2015):

Screening:

May 16th at 18:30h

May 30th at 20:30h

Movie with two parts, each part is the same story but different somehow. A young painter meets a famous film director, they go to her art workshop and end up getting drunk with soju and attending her friend's party. Both start getting involved with each other, he is married but they have an affair. Second part starts.

“Halfway through its running time, “Right Now, Wrong Then” starts over, reversing its title and reintroducing its central pair. They do some of the same things, but the tenor and texture of their time together is altered in ways both subtle and glaring.” (New York Times)

Woman is the future of man (2004):

Screening:

May 29th at 18:30h

Two old friends have a predilection for the same woman, without knowing it. Both had an adventure with Sun-Hwa. They decide to reunite the three of them bringing back melancholic memories and more.

Hong delineates character with the lightest of strokes, and his extremely long, serene takes provide well-defined time and space for the vast emotional shifts of tiny moments to register. He poses bodies with a natural yet balletic equipoise: rarely have intimate love scenes been at once so bluntly physical yet so dignified and dramatically precise. (New York Times)

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