010 // Like You Know it All
Hong Sang-Soo
// Corée // 2009
// 122 min // Couleur // 1,85:1
Still unknown, not rich enough and in despair about changing that, Ku Kyung-nam cannot escape anymore the “art film director” label, even at forty years. When the Jecheon festival asked him to be a member of the jury, he accepted with an idea in mind: perhaps he will have some rewarding encounters.
Though he fells asleep in front of the movies, its evenings in company of a childhood friend and others participants become more and more unlikely. Ten days later, the same Ku Kyung-nom went to the Jeju Island to give a conference, at the request of its former film school. He met new people but experienced a lingering sense of déjà vu, and yet…
INTRODUCTION
Through an oversized work, Hong Sang-Soo has developed an art of cinematic variation. Sang-Soo’s films are intertwined as much as they are far apart from each other, despite their common formal artisanal frame. With a singular cruelty and a dull anguish, Like you know it all plays recreates the South Korean filmmaker’s groggy loves and ephemeral encounters dear to his heart.
PRESS
"A trivial and metaphysical tale, made of a moist and hallucinated lucidity, frighteningly hilarious.” Amélie Dubois // Les Inrockuptibles
"A sort of gender war, ruthless and funny, takes place there. Its correctness often triggers a depressive laugh in the audience." Jean-François Rauger , Le Monde
DVD and extras
Like You Know it All
Lost in the Mountains (2009, 33 min), A rare film of Hong Sang-soo : Misook, young writer, discovers that her friend slept with her lover, one of his former teachers.
16-pages booklet : Écrit sur le vent, unpublished analysis by Romain Lefebvre
Poster by Karine Daisay
10€
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Le 28 mars, 20h, au Relfet Médicis (Paris). En présence de Lea Glob.
- Le 29 mars, 20h15, au Méliès. (Montreuil). En présence de Lea Glob et Apolonia Sokol.