Walk Up

Released Mar 24, 2023

1 hr. 37 min.

Drama

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97%

30 Reviews

Tomatometer

25%

Fewer than 50 Ratings

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A middle-aged film director, together with his daughter whom he has not seen in years, visits a building owned by an interior designer. They have come because the daughter also hopes to study interior design. The designer owns the 4-story walk-up building, and she takes them up floor by floor to show them the renovations she has done. The three of them go into the rooms on each floor to look around. After the film begins in this way, we start again at the bottom and ascend one floor at a time.

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Critics Consensus

A nuanced rendering of human existence and artistic complexities, Walk Up stands as one of the most poignant and perplexing films in Hong Sang-soo's oeuvre.

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richie v

REFLEXIVO Y AUDAZ. BONITO PERO NO TAN ALTO CÓMO OTRAS Recibo novedades de este director y sus nuevas películas y solo sonrío. Porque aún no se ha estrenado su nueva película y ya tiene una o dos, o las que sean, en mente, o en rodaje. Es bonito y a la vez asfixiante, pero me relajo al saber qué es él. Va muy deprisa, pero su cine madura y cambia de manera audaz, calmada, transparente y sobre todo sencilla, sabiendo desde el principio cuáles son sus inquietudes, sus dudas, y sus miedos. Desde la pantalla podemos captar su personalidad, al menos un poquito. En las historias de Hong, el alcohol y los sentimientos son muy protagonistas, se bebe mucho tanto para reír, llorar, entenderse, cuestionarse y sobre todo desahogarse de cualquier modo que siendo Hong Sang Soo el director no nos aburriremos. Es más, es un cine difícil, y sobre todo pesado, pero gracias a sus recurrentes actores, diálogos (a veces tan repetitivos cómo graciosos) y esos planos fijos que no necesitan nada más que las mismas sensaciones que me hace el alcohol sin beberlo, solo viéndolos. Todo ese peso que él convierte en simpleza (lo necesario) y muy interesante. En lo alto nos muestra temas y sensaciones simplistas pero muy importantes para el día a día, dónde retrae melancolía, interés y algo de alegría gracias al vino. Solo son conversaciones triviales pero que recogen mucho peso cada minuto que pasamos conociendo más de ese edificio minimalista de tres pisos que parecen ser universos distintos y que sí son en diferentes tramos temporales que nos hace preguntarnos sí estamos viendo la misma película. Esta circunstancial película con historias cíclicas nos obliga a reflexionar sobre nuestras vida y sus realidades dónde todo transcurre en un todo y un nada. No es la mejor pero sí muy sensacional. RICARDO VALERO, SEPTIEMBRE 2023, ESPAÑA.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

09/16/23

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Cora V

In the movie they keep drinking and talking nonsense in a room. I decided to step out so I could also go drinking and talking nonsense with my friend! (Otherwise snoring was a high risk)

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

04/06/23

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Mary B

Slow, boring, senseless

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

04/01/23

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Hong Sang-soo

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Lee Hye-yeong

Ms. Kim

Kwon Hae-hyo

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Lee Hye-young

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Song Seon-mi

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Cho Yunhee

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Alexandra Heller-Nicholas

AWFJ.org

Walk Up is a formally cheeky, confident film from one of contemporary cinema’s true masters.

Aug 21, 2023

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Justin Chang

Los Angeles Times

“Walk Up” flows as absorbingly as a dream and is no less pleasurable to puzzle over afterward.

Mar 30, 2023

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Austin Considine

New York Times

Like many great artists, Hong appears in some ways to be trying to tell the same story over and over, each new film an attempt to solve the same essential riddle about what makes us tick. Just as well.

Mar 23, 2023

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Anton Bitel

Projected Figures

Hong Sang-soo’s 34th feature confines an ageing Hong-like director to a single multi-storey building while ringing time’s changes

Nov 15, 2023

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Sergi Sánchez

Fotogramas

Walk Up is about the lives we haven't lived and the ones we still have yet left to live with the hope there'll always be someone willing to imagine them. [Full review in Spanish]

Rated: 4/5

Aug 24, 2023

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Kathy Fennessy

Video Librarian Magazine

In Korean, Tab translates as “top,” a play on the word “tower,” and Hong uses the title building well, with each floor representing a different stage in Byung-soo 's life. If he intended the film as a self-portrait, though, it's not a very flattering one.

Rated: 3/5

Aug 24, 2023

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Synopsis

A middle-aged film director, together with his daughter whom he has not seen in years, visits a building owned by an interior designer. They have come because the daughter also hopes to study interior design. The designer owns the 4-story walk-up building, and she takes them up floor by floor to show them the renovations she has done. The three of them go into the rooms on each floor to look around. After the film begins in this way, we start again at the bottom and ascend one floor at a time.

Director: Hong Sang-soo
Screenwriter: Hong Sang-soo
Distributor: Cinema Guild
Production Co: Jeonwonsa Film
Genre: Drama
Original Language: Korean
Release Date (Theaters): Mar 24, 2023, Limited

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