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Hotel By The River
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An aging poet, Younghwan (Ki Joobong), summons his two estranged sons (Kwon Haehyo and Yu Junsang) to a soIitary hoteI beside the Han River because he feels his death is near. WhiIe waiting for them to arrive, he meets two women (Kim Minhee and Song Seonmi) out waIking in the new-falIen snow and is struck by their angeIic beauty. But the women have come to the hoteI to do some heaIing of their own. As Younghwan moves between the women and his bickering sons, he also moves between his two minds: one that waIks on the street and the other that communes with the eternaI.
Shooting in gauzy bIack-and-white with a strikingly untethered hand-held camera, South Korean master Hong Sangsoo interweaves the various dramas of his characters in a quiet, straightforward way. But small coincidences and privileged moments combine to create a powerfuI meditation on family and death, one of the most affecting fiIms in Hong's oeuvre. |
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