What is it about?
South Korean filmmaker Hong Sang-soo is occasionally critiqued for making films that blend together in retrospect. Two of Hong’s latest films, The Woman Who Ran (2020) and In Front of Your Face (2021), are certainly aware of this unfair criticism. Through the way these films portray conversations between female characters, Hong lets the audience know he's heard this tired complaint... and is more than capable of subverting it.
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Why is it important?
Hong Sang-soo's recent films The Woman Who Ran (2020) and In Front of Your Face (2021) show that the South Korean multi-hyphenate filmmaker is still capable of surprising audiences, even with more than 25 films under his belt.
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This page is a summary of: The Woman in Front of Your Face, Film International, September 2022, Intellect,
DOI: 10.1386/fint_00168_1.
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