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By the Stream

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In the wake of a scandal involving several of her students, Jeonim (Kim Minhee), an artist and lecturer at a women's university, asks her uncle Chu Sieon (Kwon Haehyo) to step in and direct a short play for the skit festival put on by her department. Her uncle is an actor-director, recently blacklisted after a scandal of his own. He decides to direct the short play because of a similar experience directing a play at the same university 40 years earlier. It doesn't take long before Sieon develops feelings for Jeonim's colleague, Professor Jeong (Cho Yunhee), a textile professor. Meanwhile, the circumstances surrounding the scandal grow more complicated, the moon waxes in the sky each night, and every morning Jeonim goes to the stream and sketches to grasp its patterns.

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David Jenkins Little White Lies This is the breeziest, most overtly congenial Hong film for a very long time. Rated: 4/5 Jan 30, 2025 Full Review Peter Bradshaw Guardian Hong’s film-making is diverting and intriguing and then it capriciously concludes, leaving things up in the air, yet without making you feel shortchanged. Perhaps this one is slighter than his recent work, but it has a comic charm. Rated: 3/5 Jan 28, 2025 Full Review Chuck Bowen Slant Magazine Art is a mode of potential connection built in large part on narcissism, and Hong Sang-soo is without peer these days in wrestling that irony onto the screen. Rated: 3.5/4 Sep 6, 2024 Full Review Markie Robson-Scott The Arts Desk This is strangely uplifting, as is the entirety of this enigmatic, gentle film. Rated: 4/5 Jan 30, 2025 Full Review Alistair Ryder View of the Arts Hong's most ambitiously self-reflective tale... Rated: 4/5 Jan 10, 2025 Full Review Dennis Schwartz Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews This wonderful, breezy film like all Hong's others is about trying to make art despite it being such a messy process. Rated: B+ Nov 29, 2024 Full Review Read all reviews

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Synopsis In the wake of a scandal involving several of her students, Jeonim (Kim Minhee), an artist and lecturer at a women's university, asks her uncle Chu Sieon (Kwon Haehyo) to step in and direct a short play for the skit festival put on by her department. Her uncle is an actor-director, recently blacklisted after a scandal of his own. He decides to direct the short play because of a similar experience directing a play at the same university 40 years earlier. It doesn't take long before Sieon develops feelings for Jeonim's colleague, Professor Jeong (Cho Yunhee), a textile professor. Meanwhile, the circumstances surrounding the scandal grow more complicated, the moon waxes in the sky each night, and every morning Jeonim goes to the stream and sketches to grasp its patterns.
Director
Hong Sang-soo
Producer
Hong Sang-soo
Screenwriter
Hong Sang-soo
Production Co
Jeonwonsa Film
Genre
Drama
Original Language
Korean
Runtime
1h 51m