A professor in the film department at a provincial university goes to Seoul to meet his senior, who works as a film critic, and stays in a northern Seoul village for three days.... (Full plot summary below)
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A professor in the film department at a provincial university goes to Seoul to meet his senior, who works as a film critic, and stays in a northern Seoul village for three days.
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| Boston PhoenixBrett MichelHong may be copying a template from his earlier movies about flailing directors (Like You Know It All, Woman on the Beach), but each film is unique, punctuated by occasional zooms that underline the randomness of existence. |
| Chicago ReaderJ. R. JonesThe listless execution may remind you less of 8 1/2 than of Woody Allen's whiny Stardust Memories. |
| New YorkerRichard BrodyHong abstracts the tense network of fragile relationships to crisp, briskly sketched lines that he adorns with bubbly and self-deprecating humor and graceful wonders... |
| Time OutKeith UhlichA 25-words-or-less pitch for The Day He Arrives - shot in luminous black-and-white - might go something like: "Hong Sang-soo does Groundhog Day." |
| Tiny Mix TapesDerek SmithThe Day He Arrives is a minor effort from Hong, but it's also rather humorous and, like his other films, contains a brilliantly constructed narrative that continually turns back on itself. |
| Village VoiceNick PinkertonLike Rohmer, Hong is wonderful with atmospheric effects, using whirling snowfalls to place his characters' inchoate longing in relief. |
| New York TimesManohla DargisThe Day He Arrives has real force and its experimentation is in the service of a moving story about a man who, as he says at the start, has nowhere to go. And so he returns to a bar, a woman and situations that are always the same and yet always different - snow falls during one kiss but not another - playing a director whose life resembles a movie he keeps remaking. |
| User ReviewClaudia P[technical difficulties with flixster/facebook - sorry. review will be as a comment below.] |
| User ReviewAlex LIn "The Day He Arrives," a story is retold five or six times, some of which are only fragments of the story, through seven characters. Although the major events are the same each time, little details change. Lines spoken or actions performed by one character in one retelling of the story are performed by someone else in another retelling. The story explores how men and women behave with their friends and in their relationships, and what they want to get out of these things. One of my favorite movies. |
| User ReviewD.s. WWas I in an extraordinarily good mood this morning, or is this film not every bit as delightful and clever as it appeared? Is anything as simple as it first appears? I can't think of another film where interpersonal tensions are layered so effectively... Which is to say, there's some unexpected mindfucking going on, but the real prize here is the portrayal of an artist's quirkiness. Is running away from people drunk in a parking lot quirky, or just crazy? How many of us could see ourselves doing that? Show of hands... |
