On the Beach at Night Alone
Hong Sang-soo’s steel-nerved, clear-eyed response to the tabloid frenzy that erupted in South Korea over his relationship with actress Kim Min-hee (who stars in the film) is perhaps his most achingly personal film yet.
Hong Sang-soo’s movies have always invited autobiographical readings, and his 19th feature is perhaps his most achingly personal film yet, a steel-nerved, clear-eyed response to the tabloid frenzy that erupted in South Korea over his relationship with actress Kim Min-hee. The film begins in Hamburg, where actress Young-hee (played by Kim herself, who won the Best Actress prize at Berlin for this role) is hiding out after the revelation of her affair with a married filmmaker. Back in Korea, a series of encounters shed light on Young-hee’s volatile state, as she slips in and out of melancholic reflection and dreams. Centered on Kim’s astonishingly layered performance, On the Beach at Night Alone is the work of a master mining new emotional depths. A Cinema Guild release.
Read the November-December 2017 issue of Film Comment magazine, featuring Hong Sang-soo and more.
A drama of rare lyrical exaltation . . . a kaleidoscopic fusion of reality and fantasy.
—Richard Brody, The New Yorker
One of the year’s great woman-on-the-edge-of-a-nervous-breakdown movies.
—Jonathan Romney, Film Comment
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