Synopsis
Young-hee, an actress reeling in the aftermath of an affair with a married film director, escapes to Hamburg. But when she returns to Korea and meets with friends for drinks, startling confessions emerge.
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Cast
- Kim Min-heeYoung-hee
- Jung Jae-youngMyung-soo
- Seo Young-hwaJee-young
- Kwon Hae-hyoChun-woo
- Song Sun-miJun-hee
- Moon Sung-keunSang-won
- Ahn Jae-hongSeung-hee
- Gong Min-jeungMa-ri
- Kang Tae-uSung-woo
- Park Hong-yeolBlack man
Recommendations
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The Playlist
whether because of its personal nature, its occasional ferocity, its unusually dark undercurrents, its audacious defiance of expectation and explanation or Kim Min-hee’s essential performance, On The Beach At Night Alone feels like it will be exceptional even for longtime diehard Hong fans. - 91
The Film Stage
On the Beach at Night Alone, a bittersweet tone poem from South Korean writer-director Hong Sang-soo, thinks many a thought about the universe and the future, mostly expressed through nature and the characters’ anxieties about growing old. - 90
Village Voice
Knowing the real-life inspiration for On the Beach at Night Alone may help one appreciate the film’s moral trajectory a bit better. But the movie’s charms work on a much more immediate level, in the way it captures the ever-shifting dynamic between men and women, and the difficulty of matching one’s feelings to one’s words. - 83
IndieWire
On the Beach at Night Alone is a fascinating sublimation of autobiography into Hong’s precise creative terms, a bittersweet character study as poignant, witty and deceptively slight as much of his work that also refurbishes it with a unique personal dimension. - 80
The Hollywood Reporter
The story is scarce to non-existent, but Kim Min-hee in the main role keeps the audience awake, waiting for her next socially uncensored outburst of truth. - 80
Screen Daily
Kim Min-hee, especially, gives another stellar performance. - 80
Variety
Unfussy in form, open in expression and gentle in reach as its maker revisits such recurring preoccupations as loneliness, regret and the value of love in life and art. - 80
The New York Times
Ms. Kim is simultaneously an ordinary woman and a melodramatic heroine, her performance made more layered and intriguing by the intimation that she may be playing herself.
