Hong Sang-soo
Hong Sang-soo is a South Korean film director and screenwriter. His films often deal in love affairs and everyday dilemmas in contemporary South Korea. His work has been widely-acclaimed and received numerous international accolades.
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Defining films
Critical context
There are few filmmakers as distinctive as the South Korean master Hong Sang-soo, a writer-director whose films are immediately recognisable to even those with very little investment in auteurism. At the same time, he is not easy to pin down and describe, as his style is subtle and thus often elusive for the critic, a fact compounded by Hong’s reticence to discuss the meaning of his work. 1 Therefore, there is a need for some to resort to analogies: Hong is the Korean Eric Rohmer, 2 or the…
Films by decade
