Introduction Review: A Narrow but Deceptively Deep Cut of Hong Sangsoo Simplicity Introduction Review: A Narrow but Deceptively Deep Cut of Hong Sangsoo Simplicity
The Korean auteur s latest modest miniature makes no demands of the viewer, but beneath its pleasant, placid surface wait rich rewards.
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Director: Hong Sangsoo
With: Shin Seokho, Park Miso, Kim Youngho, Ki Joobong, Seo Younghwa, Kim Minhee, Cho Yunhee, Ye Jiwon, Ha Seongguk.
Running time: Running time: 66 MIN.
Courtesy of Jeonwonsa Film Co. Prod.
Like cracking a window in a stuffy room, it sometimes feels as if Hong Sangsoo’s films are where festival lineups go when they need to breathe. The 2021 Berlin Film Festival takes a quick, deep lungful with “Introduction,” an airy 66-minute sampler of everything the Korean director’s fans admire, which is coincidentally everything his detractors dislike. But despite the familiarly strange, gossamer-spiderweb patt