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J. R. Jones
Chicago Reader
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.
Sep 12, 2019
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Keith Uhlich
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.
Rated: 5/5
Nov 17, 2011
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Jeannette Catsoulis
New York Times
The South Korean director Hong Sang-soo unleashes yet another emotionally stunted antihero in Night and Day, a rambling study of male arrested development.
Rated: 2/5
Oct 23, 2009
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David Walsh
World Socialist Web Site
The director has cornered this particular market...and now should give it up. Perhaps life will suggest that to him.
Feb 13, 2021
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Derek Smith
Tiny Mix Tapes
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.
Rated: 3/5
Oct 4, 2017
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Dennis Schwartz
Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Our muscular antihero protagonist turns out to be the lost soul from Seoul, whose utterances of love and seemingly sincere actions always remain suspect.
Rated: A-
Jan 14, 2010
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has no bearing on cole porter song or bio-pic of the same name
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Rated 4 out of 5 stars
01/21/23
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Very Korean in its emotional content,, an easily digestible metaphysical piece but nothing to wax lyrical about.
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Rated 3 out of 5 stars
02/09/23
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walter m
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.
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Rated 3 out of 5 stars
03/31/23
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Audience Member
Way too long and slow for its own good. However, Sang-soo Hong always has something to say worth observing.
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Rated 3 out of 5 stars
01/29/23
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Audience Member
Una decepción. TenÃa muchas ganas de verla, ya que actua Park Eun-hye. Pero la cinta es super lenta, sin una lÃnea de historia y un uso de cámara tan tÃmido 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.
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Rated 2 out of 5 stars
02/14/23
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Audience Member
No synoptical sentence necessary other than to say it's another HONG Sang-soo film. It didn't irritate me. I liked the guy and one of the girls. For almost every winning scene there's a companion scene of superfluous indulgence. I keep trying. Even tried to follow up with HaHaHa but recognized I need recovery time to cleanse the palette.
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Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars
02/10/23
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