The great names in cinema
SOUTH KOREA | 66 minutes | 2018
Quarrelling, making up, little stabs in the back, and boozy despair – as always, Hong Sang-Soo feels right at home here. In his latest opus Grass, he uses his signature finesse to provide short glimpses into the lives of customers at a café that feels cut off from the outside world. As usual, there’s melancholy in the mix, but this time the South Korean director has included a much darker, more desperate dimension too. What at first comes across as comedy can suddenly go all dark with cutting dialogue. Once again, Sang-Soo brilliantly blurs the lines between drama and comedy.
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The Day a Pig Fell into the Well (1996)The Power of Kangwon Province (1998)Virgin Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors (2000)On the Occasion of Remembering the Turning Gate (2002)Woman Is the Future of Man (2004)Tale of Cinema (2005)Woman on the Beach (2006)Night and Day (2008)Like You Know It All (2009)Jeonju Digital Project "Visitors": Lost in the Mountains (short film, 2009)Hahaha (2010)Oki's Movie (2010)The Day He Arrives (2011)List (???) (short film, 2011)In Another Country (2012)Nobody's Daughter Haewon (2013)Our Sunhi (2013)"Hong Sang-soo": Venice 70: Future Reloaded (short film, 2013)Hill of Freedom (2014)Right Now, Wrong Then (2015)Yourself and Yours (2016)On the Beach at Night Alone (2017)Claire's Camera (2017)The Day After (2017)Grass (2018)Gangbyun Hotel (“Hotel by the River”) (2018)
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