Synopsis
Kim Seong-nam travels to Paris to escape an arrest, leaving his wife behind in Korea. After he arrives, he meets an ex-girlfriend and is introduced to a small community of Korean artists.
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Cast
- Kim Young-hoKim Seong-nam
- Park Eun-hyeLee Yoo-jung
- Hwang Su-jeongHan Sung-in
- Gi Ju-bongMr. Jang
- Lee Sun-kyunYoon Kyung-soo
- Jérémie ElkaïmMan Coming Out the Apartment
- Lee Sang-hoonJang's Eldest Son
- Lee Jung-hoonJang's Younger Son
Recommendations
- 100
Time Out
Filmmakers from Jacques Rivette to Hou Hsiao-hsien have treated the City of Light like Alice’s rabbit hole; writer-director Hong Sang-soo similarly embraces the fantasy, but goes one step further in this extraordinary character study by fully erasing the line that separates the actual from the fictional. - 80
Variety
Very Korean in its emotional content, while also preserving a quizzical distance that is quite French, picture is one of his lightest and most easily digestible metaphysical meals to date. - 80
Village Voice
Some of it is hilarious, some sad, all filtered through Hong's inimitably wry take on the unbearable lightness of being . . . himself. - 70
The Hollywood Reporter
Regardless of critics' assertion of a change in style, Hong core group of intellectual admirers will still find pleasure in his cerebral film language, nuanced dialogue, and droll observations of a Korean abroad. - 50
The New York Times
Korean director Hong Sang-soo unleashes yet another emotionally stunted antihero in Night and Day, a rambling study of male arrested development.
