After years living abroad, former actress Sangok (Lee Hyeyoung) is back in Seoul, staying with her sister Jeongok (Cho Yunhee) in her high-rise apartment. Sangok meets with a film director, secretly smokes cigarettes, and ruminates on the possibility of a comeback… Hong Sang-soo’s latest is a cinematic meditation on making amends and memory. “The film is an obsessive rumination on the little squabbles and inconveniences and pleasures that add up to the bulk of our lives.” –Chuck Bowen, Slant Magazine
Director Biography
The prolific Korean filmmaker Hong Sang-soo came from a family of film producers, and studied at Chung-Ang University, the California College of Arts and Crafts and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. His films have appeared at film festivals around the world: from his debut, The Day a Pig Fell Into the Well (1996) to In Front of Your Face (2021).