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
Overview
A film director who no longer makes films arrives in Seoul to meet a close friend. When the friend doesn't show up, he 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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94%
Tomatometer
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
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
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
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
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