U ri Sunhi

It feels like an idea was to make a movie that somewhat resembles "Lost in Translation". Well... It didn't pan out. It is extremally slow, almost no sounds except for dialogues which aren't particularly entertaining or witty, no real action or plot development of any kind - the movie literally consists of a few scenes where our characters meet up and talk. It has a pretty positive vibe, perhaps somebody can find it climatic but all in all it is pretty boring and disappointingly uneventful. After I have watched it, I literally have no clue what this piece was supposed to be about. It does remind me of "Lost of Translation" a lot but it didn't even got close to S. Coppola's movie on a shelf. Not bad overall but I find it hard to go above 5/10.

Sunhi returns to the film school she graduated from a year before and starts to run into old friends. She's interested in some, others are interested in her. Awkward encounters ensue, heavy drinking and eating chicken. It's a sort of a Rom-Com, but with some kind of Korean twist that I didn't completely understand. The closest comparison is an extended episode of Seinfeld, or perhaps a Woody Allen movie.

I saw this film yesterday at Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF). On the plus side, there were a number of funny scenes, especially revolving around the game of telephone being played between the four main characters as they talk about Sunhi, each other, how they need to dig deeper to find themselves, etc. On the downside, not much happens, I never really got into any of the characters, and ultimately I was a bit bored.

I suspect that there's a cultural and language disconnect. I don't think that the subtitles did justice to what seemed to be some clever repetition of lines and memes circling between the characters. Culturally, I know that Korea has a deep and quite dissimilar culture compared to Canada. So, I suspect that many of the jokes and potentially the romanticism was lost on me. Director Hong Sang-soo is said to be quite successful in Korea. Perhaps with a better introduction by the festival staff, and improved subtitles, this film could be more successful. As it is I can only give it a 6/10.

I can't say I loved it but yes I did indeed like it mainly coz the character Sunhi has some charcteristic trait similar to me like how she is reserved,ambitious but hesitant, how she is calm at one sec and gets all worked up at the next,how all she wanna do is find herself and don't mind being alone and loves being away from the crowd....and i hated the character as how i hate myself for having these similar traits😂

Other than that I shouldn't lie and honestly say that it's not engaging throughout....but I still won't say that it's boring.....

It's peaceful,calm and realistic

This is the third movie of Hong Sangsoo that I've watched and I am not a cinephile or a person who understands everything in a movie.

Still I want to say that even after going through the same style of HongSangsoo still again I don't feel disappointed.

He does again what he did in the other 2 movies of his I watched The movie character is once again someone related to films.

Soju,chicken and cigerettes(sometimes beer) are a must in his movies and in character conversations.

Limited shots mostly long single shots Zooming in and zooming out Doesn't higlight scenes with back ground scores that you would actually see highlighted in most of the other films instead opts for silence or location sounds....which some may feel boring yet to me it's realistic and when there is something playing in the background it's usually a nice and small set piece of a musical instrument if I remember correctly.

Give it a go if you are extremely patient or has come across to like HongSangsoo's works.