Night and Day (Bam gua nat) Reviews
Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Our muscular antihero protagonist turns out to be the lost soul from Seoul, whose utterances of love and seemingly sincere actions always remain suspect.
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| Original Score: A-
Top CriticThe 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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| Original Score: 2/5
Filmcritic.com
touches on such diverse subjects as religion, North Korea, and the world of dreams
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| Original Score: 3/5
Time Out New York
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.
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| Original Score: 5/5
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.
NewsBlaze
An intriguing look at a hedonist in the midst of a midlife crisis, a creep whose dalliances and denial slowly catch up with him.
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| Original Score: 4/4
Film-Forward.com
Ah, to be middle aged, footloose, and fancy free!
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| Original Score: 2.75/5
Slant Magazine
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.
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| Original Score: 3/4
Lessons of Darkness
[Crafts] a portrait that's at once highly specific and yet effortlessly attuned to life's inherent disorder.
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| Original Score: B+
Spirituality and Practice
A well-wrought Korean film about a middle-aged painter's infatuation with a pretty young art student.
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| Original Score: 3/5
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.
