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      The Novelist's Film

      Released Oct 28, 2022 1 hr. 32 min. Drama List
      100% 29 Reviews Tomatometer 67% Fewer than 50 Ratings Audience Score Junhee (Lee Hyeyoung, last seen in Hong's In Front of Your Face) is a novelist who's grown disenchanted with her own writing. On a trip to see an old friend, she runs into a film director who was set to adapt one of her novels before the project fell through. One chance encounter leads to another and soon she finds herself having lunch with Kilsoo (Kim Minhee), a well-known actress also questioning her role as an artist. It's then that Junhee has an epiphany: she will make a film starring Kilsoo. It won't be like other films. It will be the novelist's film. Read More Read Less Watch on Fandango at Home Premiered Apr 20 Buy Now

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      Hong Sang-soo reaffirms his ability to distill beauty and wisdom from the mundane in The Novelist's Film, a pure and delightful deliberation on an artist's creative process.

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      Shahram natural life when we just pass without observing all around us, then Hong is slowing the time and pause the moments to walk through how exactly humankind is struggling and how we lost our taste and senses. how normality of society rules us to follow paths without questioning and when we do it becomes marvelous moment. nice touch 👌. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 12/26/22 Full Review gonzalo n No hay con qué darle. Cultura y vida real de una forma tan explícita que solo Hong puede lograr. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 11/15/22 Full Review ian c Hong Sang-soo brings about a film about Kim Junhee who after a chance encounter with an old director, she decides to try another medium to tell a story. The movie is well done and paint a nice picture of the creative process to making a film. However, the dialogue heavy film scenes and the very limited amount of camera angles and close-ups/full-shot movements make the film seem to slowly drag on. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Justin Chang Los Angeles Times Tense, absorbing and finally enchanting... Nov 7, 2022 Full Review Austin Considine New York Times A Chekhovian study in small moments and chance encounters, which is to say it is a study of human beings as they really live: ambiguously and without exposition, spontaneously and without tidy motives or resolution. Oct 27, 2022 Full Review David Ehrlich indieWire I can’t say whether Hong has suffered any of the creative self-doubts that animate his latest heroine, but the film he’s made for her feels as revealing as the one she then makes for herself. Rated: B+ Oct 25, 2022 Full Review Stephanie Bunbury Deadline Hollywood Daily At a time when so many people have been isolated, it is a hymn to the galvanizing spark of collaboration. Sep 19, 2023 Full Review Kathy Fennessy Video Librarian Magazine If The Novelist's Film revolves around a writer and director who constantly surprises, Hong proves with this film, that he can, too. Rated: 4/5 Aug 22, 2023 Full Review Victor Esquirol Otroscines.com A story told with the disarming humility of someone who does not carry with them the burdensome self-imposition of sharing great revelations every time they bring us together in a movie theater. [Full review in Spanish] Rated: 4/5 Apr 6, 2023 Full Review Read all reviews

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      Synopsis Junhee (Lee Hyeyoung, last seen in Hong's In Front of Your Face) is a novelist who's grown disenchanted with her own writing. On a trip to see an old friend, she runs into a film director who was set to adapt one of her novels before the project fell through. One chance encounter leads to another and soon she finds herself having lunch with Kilsoo (Kim Minhee), a well-known actress also questioning her role as an artist. It's then that Junhee has an epiphany: she will make a film starring Kilsoo. It won't be like other films. It will be the novelist's film.
      Director
      Hong Sang-soo
      Executive Producer
      Hong Sang-soo
      Screenwriter
      Hong Sang-soo
      Distributor
      The Cinema Guild
      Production Co
      Jeonwonsa Film
      Genre
      Drama
      Original Language
      Korean
      Release Date (Theaters)
      Oct 28, 2022, Limited
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