Hong Sang-soo

While Hong’s style shifts often (less in terms of camera placement, but rather in terms of narrative construction, and in his use of comedy), it is always enjoyable to sit back and see how his characters relate with each other, either positively or negatively. There is a moment – and it is, in my opinion, the best moment in Hong’s whole career – in Turning Gate in which Myung-sook sits on a bus next to Seon-young, and, while he obliviously reads, she begins to stare at him with such a knowing,...