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Hotel By The River
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(BLU-RAY US Import) (US-Import)
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An aging poet, Younghwan (Ki Joobong), summons his two estranged sons (Kwon Haehyo and Yu Junsang) to a solitary hotel beside the Han River because he feels his death is near. While waiting for them to arrive, he meets two women (Kim Minhee and Song Seonmi) out walking in the new-fallen snow and is struck by their angeIic beauty. But the women have come to the hotel to do some healing of their own. As Younghwan moves between the women and his bickering sons, he aIso moves between his two minds: one that waIks on the street and the other that communes with the eternal.
Shooting in gauzy bIack-and-white with a strikingIy untethered hand-held camera, South Korean master Hong Sangsoo interweaves the various dramas of his characters in a quiet, straightforward way. But smaIl coincidences and priviIeged moments combine to create a powerful meditation on famiIy and death, one of the most affecting films in Hong's oeuvre. |
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