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Tale of Cinema

Geuk jang jeon

France, South Korea

2005

89 Min
Color
1.85:1
Korean
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DIR Hong Sang-soo

EXEC Choi Yong-Bae

PROD Marin Karmitz

SCR Hong Sang-soo

DP Kim Hyung-ku, Young-rho Kim

CAST Kim Myoeng-su, Kim Sang-kyung, Kye Seong-Yong

ED Ham Sung-won

MUSIC Jeong Yong-jin

Cannes (In Competition), New York

Synopsis

In Seoul, the paths of two men and one woman intersect and move apart from one another, centering around their love for cinema. A suicidal student meets a young woman who decides to follow him in his fatal gesture. Coming out of a cinema, Tongsu, an unsuccessful filmmaker, spots a beautiful young woman, and recognizes her : she is the main actress in the film he has just seen. The life of this wavering and distressed young man strangely echoes the one of the young man from the beginning. —IMDb

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Hong Sang-soo

A regular on the international festival circuit, Hong Sang-soo is one of Korea’s most highly regarded contemporary directors. His mostly improvised, innovatively constructed films conceal rich layers of meaning beneath deceptively simple surfaces, and reveal a filmmaker with a unique, individual style. A rather notorious figure on the Seoul film scene, Hong has a fondness for alcohol that is almost as legendary as his talent for filmmaking. He’s been known to get familiar with his actors before shooting by taking them on drinking binges, and, for verisimilitude, the many drinking scenes in his films normally include actually drunk performers (who sometimes don’t remember these scenes after they’ve been shot).

Born in 1960, Hong began his film studies at Joongang University in Korea, then moved to the United States, where he received his BFA from the California College of Arts and Crafts and his MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. His debut feature, The Day a… read more

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Gondo

13Dec11

Cinema is everywhere. Same as reality.

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14Aug11

Took me way too long to get around to seeing this ... massively under rated Hong Sang-soo flick!

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Law

14Dec09

But please do not read anything (especially the plot synopsis!) about the film before seeing it.

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Law

14Dec09

Zach and Drew, you should try and find this one too.

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Hong Sang-soo's Spatial Quirks, or Where's That Piano?

By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky on April 25, 2012

On the repetition-obsessed filmmaker’s wonky sense of space.

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By Law on October 17, 2009

Avoid reading the synopsis above.

My new favourite Hong Sang-Soo film is a very brilliant film. with a smart narrative that works on so many levels and so many semiotic mirrors that this film…  read review

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