In Our Day (2024)
Director: Hong Sang-soo Run Time: 88 min. Release Year: 2023
Starring: Gi Ju-bong, Ha Seong-guk, Kim Min-hee, Park Mi-so, Song Sun-mi
Country: South Korea
Language: Korean
About the film:
World Premiere, 2023 Cannes Directors’ Fortnight.
Sangwon, an actress recently returned to South Korea, is temporarily staying with her friend, Jungsoo, and her cat, Us. Elsewhere in the city, the aging poet Uiju lives alone, his cat having recently passed away.
“Fashioning a radical cinema aesthetic that abounds in the fleeting observational textures of poetry or journals.”
—Chuck Bowen, Slant Magazine
On this ordinary day, each of them has a visitor: Sangwon is visited by her cousin, Jisoo and Uiju, by a young actor, Jaewon. Each of them wants to learn about a career in the arts. But they also have bigger questions. Both Sangwon and Uiju have ramyun noodles for lunch and they both add hot pepper paste to their ramyun noodles, not a very common thing to do. As our friends talk and drink the day away, similarities between these encounters multiply and we begin to realize they may be more than just mere coincidence.
About the filmmaker:
Hong Sang-soo is an acclaimed South Korean filmmaker known for his poetic storytelling. He studied at Chungang University before receiving a BFA from California College of Arts and Crafts and an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Since 1996, he has written and directed 30 feature-length films as well as several shorts. His work has screened at film festivals around the world and won top prizes at Cannes, Locarno, and Berlin, among others. His many acclaimed films include Woman on the Beach (2006), Hahaha (2010), In Another Country (2012), Our Sunhi (2013), Right Now, Wrong Then (2015), The Day After (2017), The Woman Who Ran (2020) and The Novelist’s Film (2022). He currently teaches at Konkuk University in Seoul.
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