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Movie Info

In the corner of a small café, Areum types on her laptop. At the tables around her, other customers enact the various dramas of their lives: A young couple charges each other with serious crimes, an old man tries to rekindle a flame with a younger woman, and a narcissistic filmmaker works to put together his next project. Is she merely writing what she hears? Or is she hearing what she has written? As the dramas inside the café unfold, the plants outside grow taller.

Genre:

drama
Original Language:

Korean
Director:

Hong Sang-Soo
Producer:

Hong Sang-Soo
Writer:

Hong Sang-Soo
Release Date (Theaters):

Apr 19, 2019 limited
Release Date (Streaming):

Apr 13, 2020
Box Office (Gross USA):

$9.0K
Runtime:

1h 6m
Production Co:

Jeonwonsa Film

Cast & Crew

Kim Min-hee
Areum

Jeong Jin-yeong
Kyungsoo

Ki Ju-bong
Changsoo

Young-hwa Seo
Sunghwa

Sae-Byuk Kim
Jiyoung

Ahn Jae Hong
Hongsoo

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Critic Reviews for Grass

All Critics (26) | Top Critics (11) | Fresh (24) | Rotten (2)

At this point it feels as though Hong can create a lovely composition or reach psychological insights offhandedly-the films successfully translate his carefree filmmaking process into narrative form.

December 30, 2019 | Full Review…

Ben Sachs
Chicago Reader
"Grass," true to its title, is small, sharp and bladelike.

April 23, 2019 | Full Review…

Justin Chang
Los Angeles Times
One of the best expressions/variations on Hong's usual formula.

April 19, 2019 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…

Simon Abrams
RogerEbert.com
This movie, like most of Hong's others, doesn't pass judgment on its largely passive protagonist. In fact, it suggests that observing the people that pass through one's sight and hearing is an entirely valid mode of living.

April 18, 2019 | Full Review…

Glenn Kenny
New York Times
By the end of the film, Areum is forced to reckon with the very people she so casually, even callously inserted into her writing.

April 15, 2019 | Rating: B+ | Full Review…

Lawrence Garcia
AV Club
Hong turns the café and its narrow alley into a graveyard of emotion. With a disturbing simplicity, he maps a passing vortex of pain onto bare and banal places and, in the process, rescues it from oblivion.

April 15, 2019 | Full Review…

Richard Brody
New Yorker
Although I recognize that there is a certain intimacy and poetic lightness in his story, I'm not so moved by the argument about the link of human expertise. [Full review in Spanish]

July 27, 2020 | Rating: 6/10 | Full Review…

Yasser Medina
Cinemaficionados
Even if Areum looks down on everyone from her pedestal, at the end, emotions are what makes us human, Hong seems to say.

July 17, 2020 | Full Review…

Dustin Chang
ScreenAnarchy
We hope that we'll be understood by saying that there can be no more perfect closing image... filled with the joy of human warmth. [Full review in Spanish]

March 17, 2020 | Rating: 5/5 | Full Review…

Miguel Muñoz Garnica
El antepenúltimo mohicano
Hong Sang-soo's Grass is a movie defined through its visual cues and their intimate dance with the words that try to define them.

October 26, 2019 | Full Review…

Soham Gadre
Film Inquiry
There's more fun to be had with the contradictions Hong can bring up and explore in the span of one hour than what most other films can muster up with two.

June 5, 2019 | Full Review…

C.J. Prince
The Cinessential
Hong Sang-soo returns with his 22nd film, a masterpiece that turns a simple, almost theater-like premise into an ambulatory rumination on life and death.

May 25, 2019 | Full Review…

Joshua Brunsting
The CriterionCast