The Day After

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    The Day After
    2017

    Synopsis

    On her first day at work, Areum replaces a woman who broke up with the boss. The wife of the boss finds a love note, bursts into the office, and mistakes Areum for the other woman.

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    Cast

    • Kwon Hae-hyoKim Bong-wan
    • Kim Min-heeSong Ah-reum
    • Kim Sae-byukLee Chang-sook
    • Cho Yun-heeSong Hae-joo
    • Gi Ju-bong
    • Kang Tae-uChinese Restaurant Delivery Man
    • Park Ye-joo

    Recommendations

    • 91

      The Playlist

      Infidelity has long been one of Hong’s central subjects, but The Day After might just be his greatest film about the ails of mixing business with pleasure.
    • 90

      The New York Times

      The Day After, one of three films this prolific director brought to festivals in 2017 (another one screened in Berlin in February), is an especially elegant presentation of some of his [Mr. Hong’s] characteristic concerns.
    • 88

      Slant Magazine

      As with most Hong Sang-soo films, it engages in intellectual gamesmanship while courting emotional pathos.
    • 83

      The Film Stage

      With its drab interior settings, cinematographer Kim Hyung-koo’s uncharacteristically unforgiving black-and-white photography, brutally honest subject matter, and rare moments of catharsis, it’s not the easiest watch. Of course, it’s this very slog that makes bigger moments all the more powerful.
    • 70

      The Hollywood Reporter

      Hong, who again wrote as well as directed, hasn’t suddenly become someone interested in things such as densely plotted narratives and surprise twists, with the few events that happen only excuses to dig a little deeper into the behavior and feelings of his protagonists.
    • 70

      Variety

      Even lesser Hong has its lackadaisical pleasures, and The Day After has its share of wry musings and twitchy banter between characters to counter its visual stasis and lulling storytelling.
    • 67

      IndieWire

      The film is carried along on a powerful undercurrent of regret, and it comes to feel as though Bong-wan is a prisoner in the book-lined office where he ostensibly holds all the power.
    • 60

      The Guardian

      The Day After is an elegant exercise. It feels like a chapter from something bigger.

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