The Korea Society co- presents a 'Hong Sang-Soo tribute' with BAM Cinematek, featuring the celebrated Korean director's three latest films that have won over critics and audiences alike worldwide - Woman is the Future of Man, Tale of Cinema and Woman on the Beach.
"One of the most exciting and authentically individual filmmakers to emerge on the world stage recently.... Wreathed in a profound melancholy, Hong's films lyrically explore the limits of subjectivity, both its pathos and its dangers, often through different viewpoints that don't so much cancel one another out as add another tile to the mosaic of existence." - Manohla Dargis, The New York Times
Monday, April 16 - Saturday, April 21, 2007
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WOMAN IS THE FUTURE OF MAN (88 min) 2004
여자는 남자의 미래다
Monday, April 16 | 4:30 PM
With Yu Ji-Tae, Kim Tae-Woo, Sung Hyun-Ah. Two male college friends reunite and spontaneously decide to look up a woman with whom they were both separately involved. "The men's self-immolating behavior is what's saddest in the Hong universe, thanks largely to his duplicitous manner with narrative. You can rarely grip the shape of the entire film until past the halfway marker. When you do, the tragedy of soured lives is beyond the point of no return." - The Village Voice
TALE OF CINEMA (89 min) 2005
극장전
Friday, April 20 | 2 PM, 4:30 PM, 6:50 PM, 9:15 PM
With Lee Ki-Woo, Uhm Ji-Won. A young man bumps into a female friend; the ensuing evening involves drinking, sex, and a suicide pact. Turns out it's only a film (within a film), but life imitates art, which in turn imitates life... "Tale expands on Hong's preoccupations with a renewed conceptual depth. While it may be a tough film to love, it is also Hong's finest work to date, marking a bold new direction just when Hong is most in need of a fresh start." - Michael Sicinski, Cinema Scope
WOMAN ON THE BEACH (126 min) 2006
해변의 여인
Saturday, April 21 | 3 PM, 6 PM, 9 PM
With Go Hyun-Jung, Kim Seung-Woo, Kim Tae-Woo, Song Seon-Mi. A filmmaker, writing his latest script at a seaside resort town, becomes involved with two women. As ever, Hong is comically and painfully lucid in outlining the jealousy and self-absorption that fuel his male characters' drunken acting out. In the scene that is at the heart of this film, he does so literally with the help of a diagram-a fitting gesture for a filmmaker so obsessed with the geometry of human relationships.
