The South Korean director Hong Sang-soo unleashes yet another emotionally stunted antihero in Night and Day, a rambling study of male arrested development.

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Night and Day (2009)
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Reviews Counted:9
Fresh:8
Rotten:1
Average Rating:7.2/10
Rated: Not Rated
Genre: Foreign Films
Theatrical Release:Oct 23, 2009 Limited
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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,...
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. His most recent film to hit North American shores (the feverishly prolific Hong has already lapped us, with an even newer film – LIKE YOU KNOW IT ALL – premiering at Cannes last May) finds him experimenting with a change of scene – set in Paris rather than Korea, NIGHT AND DAY adds the element of cultural confusion to his usual thematic arsenal.
After getting busted for smoking pot with some students, 40-year-old artist Seong-nam impulsively flees to Paris, leaving his wife behind, and finds himself living in a kind of limbo. Staying in a run-down hotel inhabited mostly by fellow Korean ex-pats, Seong-nam wanders aimlessly around the city, becoming ensnared by temptation in the form of both an ex-flame, and a couple of young art students. Leisurely, episodic, sharp, and deeply funny, NIGHT AND DAY finds Hong working at the height of his powers. --© Anthology
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Starring: Su-jeong Hwang, Yeong-ho Kim, Seon-gyun Lee, Eun-hye Park
Starring: Su-jeong Hwang, Yeong-ho Kim, Seon-gyun Lee, Eun-hye Park
Director: Sang-soo Hong
Director: Sang-soo Hong
Screenwriter: Sang-soo Hong
Studio: IFC Films
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Reviews for Night and Day
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.
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.
An intriguing look at a hedonist in the midst of a midlife crisis, a creep whose dalliances and denial slowly catch up with him.
[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.
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.
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