Making one debut feature is hard enough, but Zhang has successfully enriched and deepened his themes—of performance, surveillance, sincerity, and exchange—by presenting these two parts in ambiguous relation to one another, with a playing order determined by the flip of a coin.
Lincoln Center delves into tales of the wicked, the outcast, the unholy, the misunderstood, and the freakish in a survey of the audacious director’s genre-busting and defining films.
It’s impossible to keep up with everything happening in New York City arts and culture, but here are a few recommendations for events you shouldn’t miss.
An extensive new series at Film at Lincoln Center showcases very nearly everything the prolific director Hong Sang-soo has made, arranged in a series of shifting double features.