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1h 55m
Directed by Hong Sangsoo | 115 mins | 2010
Two friends in a bar trade stories about their romantic exploits at a beach, which we come to realize involve the same people (including a restaurant owner played by Oscar-winner Youn Yuh-jung). Through adroit layering, Hong brings a wry sympathy to the men’s haplessness but even more so an admiration for the women whose reality escapes the male gaze. A Cannes prize-winner but invisible in the US for years.
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