22/09/2022 at 13:40Updated 22/09/2022 at 13:51
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The South Korean master of cinematographic haiku signs a new portrait of a woman.
The synopsis
Sangok, an actress who has disappeared from the screens for years, meets a famous director who offers her to act in his next film. Despite the desire to return to the foreground, the serious secret it holds about her makes her hesitant …
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The review (3/5)
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There is a cliché that sticks to Hong Sang-soo’s filmography, that of tirelessly making and remaking the same film. “Before your eyes” should not win new cinephiles to the South Korean director’s poetry as his art here is minimalist and therefore reserved for lovers-us included. Yet with three times nothing – two actors, a bar, booze and unspoken things – the director makes us feel the existential abyss that grips his heroine doomed to near death. There is something terrifying about Hye-Young Lee’s final laugh, which awakens Lynchian memories in us.
The teaser
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