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The Day She Returns review – another Hong Sang-soo round of slow, reflective boozing really hits the spot

No film-maker shows more day-drinking than Hong, and this study of an actor returning from a career break is the same again – as mysteriously addictive as ever

The Guardian - UK

What Does That Nature Say to You review – funny and complex Korean dad-boyfriend standoff

Hong Sang-soo makes a genuinely intriguing addition to his booze- and conversation-fuelled oeuvre

The Guardian - UK

Who are the 2025 Cannes Film Festival jury members?

Gathered around their president Juliette Binoche, the jury of the 78th Cannes Film Festival – which begins on 13 May – are a truly international panel, hailing from the Americas, Asian and African continents. They're tasked with choosing which one of the 22 films in competition walks away with the…

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Everything you need to know about this year’s Cannes jury members

The 78th Cannes Film Festival is set to showcase a diverse and star-studded jury led by the acclaimed French actress Juliette Binoche, who will preside over the selection of this year’s prestigious Palme d’Or. Here’s who will be joining her on the jury.

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By the Stream review – gentle college comedy of manners from Hong Sang-soo

The Korean director applies his languid style to the tale of a college campus coping with the arrival of a famous visitor

The Guardian - UK

By the Stream review – Hong Sang-soo’s likably restrained pastoral comedy of campus life

Hong adds an eccentric chapter with simple charm to his many studies of middle-class Korean life, here focussing on an arts college drama class

The Guardian - UK

A Traveler’s Needs review – Isabelle Huppert hypnotises in cool Korean comedy of manners

Huppert plays Iris, a modestly dressed French woman living in Korea who gives French lessons according to a strange procedure of her own that does not seem to involve speaking French

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Isabelle Huppert: ‘I was never the woman behind the man… the only place I could take was the main place’

As she prepares to play Mary, Queen of Scots, the French actor talks about her extraordinary career, and why she’d love to make a film in the UK – or play a Marvel villain

The Guardian - UK

Franco-Senegalese documentary 'Dahomey' wins Berlin's Golden Bear

Dahomey, a documentary by Franco-Senegalese director Mati Diop probing the thorny issues surrounding Europe's return of looted antiquities to Africa, won the Berlin Film Festival's top prize Saturday.

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Dahomey doc on Europe’s looted African art wins Berlin film festival

A documentary by Franco-Senegalese director Mati Diop probing Europe’s looted antiquities wins prestigious Golden Bear.

Al Jazeera

'Dahomey' Doc On Looted African Art Wins Berlin's Golden Bear

"Dahomey", a documentary by Franco-Senegalese director Mati Diop probing the thorny issues surrounding Europe's return of looted antiquities to Africa, won the Berlin film festival's top prize Saturday.

International Business Times

'Dahomey' Doc On Looted African Art Wins Berlin Film Fest

International Business Times

Director Hong Sang-Soo's Latest Film Features Isabelle Huppert.

Explore the enigmatic world of 'A Traveler's Needs' by Hong Sang-soo, featuring Isabelle Huppert in a tale of human connections and subtle humor in Seoul.

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The five best films at this year’s Melbourne International Film Festival

I’ve been talking to my film students lately about the way that viewing contexts affect how we receive a film – whether this means different hardware, locations, moods and modes of engaging.

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The best movies of 2023 (so far). And where to find them

Ten-best lists may be silly, but denying their uses and pleasures always struck me as sillier. And so, with the year half over, here are my favorite new movies of 2023 so far, listed in some semblance of alphabetical order (in some cases, I’ve paired two movies that seem to…

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‘The Novelist’s Film’ Reveals the Solitude of the Artist

‘The Novelist’s Film’ shows how the artistic life is incomprehensible to the outsider.

Los Angeles Times

The best movie performances of 2022

My list of the best movies of 2022 is still in the works. In the meantime, I figured a list of my favorite movie performances this year would be easier to compile. I was wrong, of course — not just because there are always more actors than movies to choose…

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China resumes streaming South Korean content after six-year suspension

A Chinese streaming platform has resumed distributing South Korean content after suspending it for nearly six years, South Korean officials said on Tuesday, in what Seoul called a sign of Beijing's readiness to improve ties.

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Review: 'The Novelist's Film' is another exquisite tale of cinema from Hong Sang-soo

Shortly before settling into "The Novelist's Film," a tense, absorbing and finally enchanting new movie written and directed by Hong Sang-soo, I couldn't help but cycle through a flurry of familiar questions: Will this one be in color or black-and-white? Will the protagonist be a writer, a painter, a filmmaker…

The Guardian - UK

In Front of Your Face review – quiet cine-literate magic from Korean auteur

Hong Sang-soo’s effortlessly lo-fi approach brings out the gentle humanity in his story of an actor returning to her family

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The best movies of 2022 (so far). And where to find them

The film critic's year-end list of favorites has always struck me as a provisional undertaking at best, a flawed but essential attempt to bring some coherent framing to a year's worth of cinematic plenty. Any honest list, however comprehensive its sweep or authoritative its posture, is made in the full…

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