Artforum, July 1st, 2007
JAMES QUANDT ON THE FILMS OF HONG SANG-SOO I don't think you really understood the film. -Yong-sil, in Tale of Cinema (2005) YOU WOULDN'T WANTTO HANG OUT with Hong Sang-soo. So cringe-making is the Korean director's acuity about social relations-the petty vexations, vanities, and evasions that constitute most so-called alliances-that one can only inter that he spends much of his time noting others' foibles for use in his films. Hong never exempts himself from this inquisition; indeed, his seven features can be read, it reductively, as a project of autoexcoriation. His work teems with Hong l...
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