The best Junhee can manage is that Sewan has gained weight, but it suits her.
But she gets in a few stealth jabs by pointing out that Junhee’s most recent effort was some time back that she now reads strictly for pleasure, not to keep up with the critical cognoscenti and that she stocks her store with books readers might enjoy. Sewan artfully dodges Junhee’s questions about why she didn’t contact the novelist with feedback after reading her latest book. Junhee first ambushes former colleague Sewan (Seo Younghwa) at the bookshop café the latter runs on the outskirts of Seoul since giving up writing herself. Venue: Berlin Film Festival (Competition)Ĭast: Lee Hyeyoung, Kim Minhee, Seo Younghwa, Park Miso, Kwon Haehyo, Cho Yunhee, Ha Seongguk, Ki Joobong, Lee Eunmi, Kim Siha But there’s sly humor and insights into the insecurities of the artistic process for those willing to listen closely to the seemingly inconsequential chatter.
The latest feature from the master of the metafictional miniature, The Novelist’s Film - which returns him to the Berlin competition after being honored for direction in 2020 for The Woman Who Ran and for screenplay the following year with Introduction - is a wispy doodle even by his own self-reflexive standards. Now midway through the third decade of a career that’s become nothing if not thematically and stylistically cohesive, Hong Sangsoo is like his own obscure streaming channel - addictive to avid subscribers but bafflingly rarefied to most newcomers.
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