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Anthology is thrilled to present the New York Theatrical Premiere Run of NIGHT AND DAY by gifted Korean auteur Hong Sang-soo, who has established himself as world cinema's poet of male narcissism, desire, and neurosis. For more than a decade now he has been quietly but consistently turning out a series of films that are somehow both self-effacing and bold, behavioral and formally experimental, including masterpieces such as VIRGIN STRIPPED BARE BY HER BACHELORS, TURNING GATE, and TALE OF CINEMA.
Oct 23, 2009 Wide
Jan 9, 2012
IFC Films
All Critics (13) | Top Critics (3) | Fresh (13) | Rotten (1) | DVD (2)
The South Korean director Hong Sang-soo unleashes yet another emotionally stunted antihero in Night and Day, a rambling study of male arrested development.
Finally, he arrives at a masterfully deployed bit of third-act rug-pulling so unexpected that it may be Hong's way of saying we are all stumbling toward an uncertain horizon.
Very Korean in its emotional content, while also preserving a quizzical distance that is quite French, pic is one of his lightest and most easily digestible metaphysical meals to date.
A little context would have helped, but it's a very honorable transfer of another quiet, seismic tremor from the Korean master.
Our muscular antihero protagonist turns out to be the lost soul from Seoul, whose utterances of love and seemingly sincere actions always remain suspect.
touches on such diverse subjects as religion, North Korea, and the world of dreams
Which of the protagonist's interactions are real and which are artist's fancy? Hong never lets on, preferring to set character and audience adrift within his motion-picture Rorschach test.
An intriguing look at a hedonist in the midst of a midlife crisis, a creep whose dalliances and denial slowly catch up with him.
Ah, to be middle aged, footloose, and fancy free!
Following his most even-handed exploration of male-female sexual conflict in Woman on the Beach, Hong Sang-soo hurtles full-bore into the subjectivity of the horny man with Night and Day.
[Crafts] a portrait that's at once highly specific and yet effortlessly attuned to life's inherent disorder.
A well-wrought Korean film about a middle-aged painter's infatuation with a pretty young art student.
No synoptical sentence necessary other than to say it's another HONG Sang-soo film. It didn't irritate me. I liked the guy and one of the girls. For almost every winning scene there's a companion scene of superfluous indulgence. I keep trying. Even tried to follow up with HaHaHa but recognized I need recovery time to
December 24, 2010A hilarious film about a 40 year old painter who leaves his wife for Paris after being sought by the police for smoking pot. Wracked by unemployment, loneliness, and idleness, he occupies his time with chasing after local Korean women. Hong's known for his critical portrayal of male egos and narcissism. Some have
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