Claire’s Camera
The increasingly prolific Hong Sang-soo’s 20th feature pairs Isabelle Huppert and Kim Min-hee in a cross-cultural bonding comedy shot on the fly during the Cannes Film Festival.
The increasingly prolific Hong Sang-soo’s 20th feature—one of his three films to premiere in 2017—is a light, sunny divertissement shot on the fly during the Cannes Film Festival. Set far from the festival’s red-carpet pomp, Claire’s Camera is a cautionary tale about mixing business with pleasure, and in its way no less philosophical than other recent Hong works. A sales agent (Kim Min-hee) is fired mid-festival for her “dishonesty”—which turns out to be code for sleeping with a director who’s also involved with her boss. The revelations emerge with the help of a French tourist named Claire (Isabelle Huppert), a detective of sorts who helps others see their situations more clearly. Kim and Huppert make for a delightful pair amid the kind of cross-cultural comedy that also defined Hong’s Huppert-starring In Another Country. A Cinema Guild release.
Watch Hong Sang-soo discuss his career at the 55th New York Film Festival below or listen on The Close-Up.
Charming and funny... One of Hong’s most formally intuitive and sharply written films.
—Sam C. Mac, Slant Magazine
Hong condenses a grand melodrama of work, love, and art into a brisk 69-minute roundelay of chance meetings and intimate confrontations.
—Richard Brody, The New Yorker
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