In Front of Your Face
59th New York Film Festival
September 24 - October 10, 2021
After years of living abroad, a middle-aged former actress (Lee Hye-young) has returned to South Korea to reconnect with her past and perhaps make amends in Hong Sangsoo’s beguiling and oddly cleansing mix of the spiritual and the cynical.
Ends Thursday!
After years of living abroad, a middle-aged former actress (Lee Hye-young) has returned to South Korea to reconnect with her past and perhaps make amends. Over the course of one day in Seoul, via various encounters—including with her younger sister; a shopkeeper who lives in her converted childhood home; and, finally, a well-known film director with whom she would like to make a comeback—we discover her resentments and regrets, her financial difficulties, and the big secret that’s keeping her aloof from the world. Both beguiling and oddly cleansing in its mix of the spiritual and the cynical, In Front of Your Face finds the endlessly prolific Hong Sangsoo in a particularly contemplative mood; it’s a film that somehow finds that life is at once full of grace and a sick joke. An NYFF59 selection. A Cinema Guild release.
Introducing Matinee Pricing! All tickets are $10 for screenings before 3pm.
Hong lingers on details that most filmmakers would either take for granted and entirely disregard.
—Chuck Bowen , Slant Magazine
To say that Hong is a prolific filmmaker is an understatement.
—Deborah Young, The Hollywood Reporter
In Front of Your Face. Courtesy of Cinema Guild.
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