On a very cold winter morning, two friends meet after many years. Hun-joon who has just got back from USA after his film studies and Mun-ho, a part time lecturer at a university, reminisce over the past, drinking in a Chinese restaurant. Hours of drinking and talks, mixed with the recollections of the past bring them back the memory of a woman. A woman they both were romancing during the same period of time. After wandering in their own version of reminiscence, they decided t... (Full plot summary below)
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On a very cold winter morning, two friends meet after many years. Hun-joon who has just got back from USA after his film studies and Mun-ho, a part time lecturer at a university, reminisce over the past, drinking in a Chinese restaurant. Hours of drinking and talks, mixed with the recollections of the past bring them back the memory of a woman. A woman they both were romancing during the same period of time. After wandering in their own version of reminiscence, they decided to find and meet her, who turns out to be running a hotel lobby bar in Puchon, a satellite city near Seoul. The woman, Sun-hwa, without showing much emotion upon their appearance, asks them to wait in front of her apartment. When she returns, they begin a decadent drinking party till the daybreak.
Leave your thoughts about Woman Is the Future of Man.
| Film Comment MagazineKent JonesThe simple structure, unwinding over roughly 36 hours, unassumingly encompasses a lifetime of disappointment and inescapable male foolishness. It's quite a rich, absorbing spectacle. |
| Combustible CelluloidJeffrey M. AndersonHong sticks to lengthy, static shots, but still somehow manages a heartbreaking grace. |
| New YorkerAnthony LaneWoman Is the Future of Man is doomed to infuriate, and its scrutiny of disconnected beings, filmed in long, hold-your-breath takes, might feel like old hat to anyone reared on Antonioni, yet Hong has a grace and stealth of his own, and his scenes tend to tilt in directions that few of us would dare to predict. |
| Film Journal InternationalEric MonderIsn't terrible. but it doesn't linger well in the memory. |
| Seattle TimesTom KeoghAcutely perceptive and mournful character study. |
| New York TimesManohla DargisMr. Hong is not yet the equal of Mr. Antonioni, but it has become increasingly difficult to see intellectually stimulating, aesthetically bold films like this in American theaters. |
| Not Coming to a Theater Near YouLeo GoldsmithProvocative, even disturbing in its resistance to categorization, demanding from its viewers a response without the reassurance of psychology or narration. |
| User ReviewAlbert PThis movie kicked my ass, and I think a lot of guys don't want to admit it, but it kicked their asses too. |
| User Reviewveronica mThis is a film that haunts you long after you see it. It seems slight or confusing in a number of ways after you watch it, but it eventually sinks in (for me at least) that it is a strong indictment of human nature while at the same time a sympathetic view of human frustration, obsession, and selfishness. The very small role of the Chinese waitress is something like the moral center of the film. Hong makes sex scenes that are at once disturbing, erotic, and depressing. |
| User ReviewMauro VEn un mundo en ya no hay hombres, ya q todos los denominados anteriormente como tales son -somos- niños, la mujer es el siguiente eslabon en la cadena evolutiva. Sin ser tan darwinista, esta pelicula del coreano parece decirnos q las representantes del "sexo debil" estan más preparadas para afrontar los desafios de la relaciones humanas en la posmodernidad. Desatadas de prejuicios atavicos, las mujeres disfrutan de una sexualidad desprejuiciada (aunque no al estilo "reventada" q saben cultivar las chicas "Sex and the city") en la q buscar el placer por el placer mismo no es un tabu. Y esto no esta retratado con personajes masculinizados ni nada por el estilo, son mujeres q pueden darnos un "blow job" porq les pinta y no como una muetra de sometimiento a nosostros, los machos. Estas feminas pueden decir q no, ante un ofrecimeito en apariencia irresistible, y no por eso ser tildadas de tontas. A los hombres al parecer nos quedan los amigos, la birra y la esperanza de q alguna de esta especie superior se digne a arrodillarse ante nosotros. Podria ser peor, no? |
