In Our Day
61st New York Film Festival
September 29 - October 15, 2023
For his 30th feature film, Hong Sangsoo has crafted a slippery yet captivating inquiry into the search for meaning, connection, and artistic satisfaction that alternates two seemingly unrelated stories concerning a disillusioned young actress and a middle-aged poet.
Ends June 20!
For his 30th feature film, Hong Sangsoo has crafted a slippery yet captivating inquiry into the search for meaning, connection, and artistic satisfaction. In Our Day alternates two seemingly unrelated stories: in the first, a disillusioned former actress named Sangwon (Hong regular Kim Minhee) who has left her profession behind and is recharging at the apartment of her longtime friend Jung-soo (Song Sunmi); in the second, a middle-aged poet, Hong Uiji (Ki Joo-bong), who has become a cult figure for a new generation of young readers, is being visited by a student (Park Miso) making a documentary about him and a young man (Ha Seong-guk) drilling him with questions about the meaning of it all—which makes it difficult for the artist to refrain from drinking, even though his doctors have sworn him off alcohol. From these two disparate strands, Hong delightfully evokes a world rich with enigma and possibility, in which the most seemingly minute detail (the whereabouts of a cat, the spiciness of a noodle dish) has outsized repercussions, and asking life’s big questions often brings us back to square one. A Cinema Guild release.
Recommended Film Comment reading:
- The Film Comment Podcast: In Our Day (Cannes 2023)
- Interview: Hong Sangsoo on Claire’s Camera and The Day After (2017)
- The Film Comment Podcast: The Hong Show with Dennis Lim
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As warm and wise as it is simple and languid.
—Brandon Yu, The New York Times
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