En otro país

On his first English-spoken film, Hong Sangsoo decides to take the light that both his cinema and Isabelle Huppert irradiate, and make it fractal. A prism of himself, Hong refracts Huppert (the perfect catalyst for his sense of the unease, the certainty, the comedy of everyday life –which makes it absurd) in three different stories, managing to illuminate new corners of cinema. Yet, Huppert will always be Anne. And she will always be a tourist in a small Korean sea town. And she will come across the very same people from that town (including a lifeguard who is, always!, unable to find the godforsaken lighthouse). Far from the Rashomon-style of storytelling, each Anne shows the way Hong, an eternal hunter of luminous halos, sees flashes in those relationships, those fleeing times, that surreal feeling of being a foreigner (in a country, in love, in life). And he compresses the playful surrealism that results from that in order to create a film the Village Voice defined, with Swiss precision, as “the love child Antonioni and Hou Hsiao-hsien never had.” Bafici ‘13 catalogue

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