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Night and Day (Bam gua nat)

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J. R. Jones Chicago Reader 09/12/2019
Hong works in long, improvised scenes that seem to go nowhere, but they're so rife with sexual subtext that, even at 144 minutes, the movie never feels long. Go to Full Review
Keith Uhlich Time Out 11/17/2011
5/5
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. Go to Full Review
Jeannette Catsoulis New York Times 10/23/2009
2/5
The South Korean director Hong Sang-soo unleashes yet another emotionally stunted antihero in Night and Day, a rambling study of male arrested development. Go to Full Review
David Walsh World Socialist Web Site 02/13/2021
The director has cornered this particular market...and now should give it up. Perhaps life will suggest that to him. Go to Full Review
Derek Smith Tiny Mix Tapes 10/04/2017
3/5
The directness of Sun-nam's voiceover encapsulates what's salient about Hong's approach, which lays everything bare and leaves little room for ambiguity. Go to Full Review
Dennis Schwartz Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews 01/14/2010
A-
Our muscular antihero protagonist turns out to be the lost soul from Seoul, whose utterances of love and seemingly sincere actions always remain suspect. Go to Full Review
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Richard B @RichardB12314 Dec 14 Despite it's length and unsympathetic main character, the movie didn't feel that long. It's about a man who treats women all the same with the same tactic of telling them what they want to hear in order to get them to sleep with him. He's incapable of actual love and appears like a psychopath. See more 01/07/2017 has no bearing on cole porter song or bio-pic of the same name See more 11/21/2015 Very Korean in its emotional content,, an easily digestible metaphysical piece but nothing to wax lyrical about. See more Walter M @Harlequin68 01/23/2014 On the run from the law in his native South Korea, Seong-nam(Kim Yeong-ho), an art student, ends up in Paris where he lives in a guesthouse room with ten other people. Seeking a little elbow room, he hangs out in the lounge where he reads the only available book, the Bible. He also gets out from time to time, reconnecting with Min-seon(Kim Yoo-jin), an ex-girlfriend. Like its sort of protagonist who is barely intriguing enough to be of interest, "Night and Day" is a shambling and random movie, along with being very episodic and improvised. But even from thousands of miles away, the movie does have some incisive things to say about South Korea, namely how strict the laws there are concerning smoking marijuana.(Like you need a reason to visit Paris, anyway.) And the North Korean character, Keong-soo(Lee Sun-kyun), is a nice touch. See more 08/17/2013 Way too long and slow for its own good. However, Sang-soo Hong always has something to say worth observing. See more 03/16/2011 Una decepción. Tenía muchas ganas de verla, ya que actua Park Eun-hye. Pero la cinta es super lenta, sin una línea de historia y un uso de cámara tan tímido que desespera. Lo unico rescatable que hizo que le pusiera 2 estrellas, es la locación, que es filmada en Paris y el hecho de que salga Park Eun-hye. Pero hasta su personaje es irritante. No la recomiendo para nada. See more Read all reviews
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Director
Hong Sang-soo