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The Day He Arrives
Drama - 2011
The Day He Arrives
7.0
94%
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A film director who no longer makes films, Seongjun arrives in Seoul to meet a close friend. When the friend doesn’t show up, Seongjun wanders the city aimlessly for three days, grabbing drinks and meeting women, with each day playing out like a version of the last.
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(2002)
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(2000)
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Details

Rated:
NOT RATED
Runtime:
79 min
Release date:
8 Sep 2011
Country:
KR
Languages:
Korean
Budget:
$0
Revenue:
$11,819
Awards:
1 nomination.

Top Critics Reviews

fresh:
The movie becomes an exploration, both playful and rueful, of desire, narrative and the idea beautifully expressed by Faulkner in "Absalom, Absalom!" that "maybe nothing ever happens once and is finished."
– Manohla Dargis,
New York Times,
19 Apr 2012
fresh:
Hong offers a strange mixture of magic, mystery, rueful melodrama and dry comedy that's like absolutely nothing else.
– Andrew O'Hehir,
Salon.com,
20 Apr 2012
fresh:
Hong abstracts the tense network of fragile relationships to crisp, briskly sketched lines that he adorns with bubbly and self-deprecating humor and graceful wonders...
– Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
23 Apr 2012
fresh:
Sang-soo Hong has no profound point to pound home. His story doesn't need an ending. He accepts all the characters just as they are.
– Roger Ebert,
Chicago Sun-Times,
5 Jul 2012
rotten:
The listless execution may remind you less of 8 1/2 than of Woody Allen's whiny Stardust Memories.
– J. R. Jones,
Chicago Reader,
6 Jul 2012
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