‘The Novelist’s Film’ Review: Real Talk – The New York Times
In Hong Sang-soo’s newest examine in small moments and likelihood encounters, a go to to an outdated buddy prompts a author in disaster to strive one thing new.
Amid the splendidly numerous and daring output of the South Korean movie business in current many years, the director Hong Sang-soo has been quietly, prolifically making options of the utmost perception and sensitivity — practically 30 since 1996 — that don’t have anything to do with the genre-play, melodrama or over-the-top violence related to a few of his higher recognized compatriots.
His most up-to-date image, “The Novelist’s Movie,” isn’t any exception, a Chekhovian examine in small moments and likelihood encounters, which is to say it’s a examine of human beings as they actually reside: ambiguously and with out exposition, spontaneously and with out tidy motives or decision.
A lot of what typifies Hong’s work will really feel acquainted in “The Novelist’s Movie”: the funds (low); the dialogue (pure); the characters (artistic varieties in disaster); the digital camera (largely a hard and fast, single shot per scene). The story is likewise reliably spare: On a go to to an outdated buddy (Web optimization Younger-hwa) exterior Seoul, the novelist Junhee (Lee Hye-young) has a run-in with a film director who as soon as jilted her professionally (Kwon Hae-hyo) and a well-known actress, Kilsoo (Hong’s longtime collaborator Kim Min-hee), who has stepped away from performing indefinitely.
Junhee has been struggling creatively herself, and he or she is prompted to pursue her personal experimental brief movie, by which she urges Kilsoo to take part. Her request, like a lot of her conversations, is awkwardly frank. That means teems within the uncomfortable silences and deflections; every platitude comprises multitudes. Is Kilsoo or enjoying good?
Hong works quick, not often getting ready scripts greater than a day prematurely, which can assist clarify how his movies will be so talky with out feeling scripted — a minor miracle every time he does it, which is about yearly. Lengthy might he run-and-gun.
The Novelist’s Movie
Not rated. In Korean, with subtitles. Working time: 1 hour 32 minutes.
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