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Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2016: #42. Hong Sang-soo’s Untitled Project

Published on January 10, 2016

Untitled Hong Sang-soo film

Director: Hong Sang-soo
Writer: Hong Sang-soo

South Korean auteur Hong Sang-soo is another perennial favorite who has amassed a significant festival circuit following over the past decade, his films often recycling the same themes and actors. Usually, there isn’t any news about his projects until they’re actually announced as being programmed at a festival (an exception being his 2012 In Another Country because it was headlined by French actress Isabelle Huppert). After winning the Golden Leopard this year at Locarno for his latest, Right Now, Wrong Then, one would assume the incredibly busy director was already working on another project. A recent interview with actress Lee Yoo-young (The Treacherous; Fatal Intuition) confirms Sang-soo wrapped another film in Autumn, 2015, starring herself and Kim Joo-hyuk.

Cast: Lee Yoo-yung, Kim Joo-Hyuk

Production Co./Producer(s): NA.

U.S. Distributor: Rights Available. TBD (domestic/international).

Release Date: Considering the project wrapped in mid-2015, Berlin seems likely if Sang-soo doesn’t save for Cannes or a return to Locarno.

Related Topics:Hong Sang-soo, Kim Joo-Hyuk, Lee Yoo-yung, Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2016, top-stories

Nicholas Bell

Los Angeles based Nicholas Bell is IONCINEMA.com's Chief Film Critic and covers film festivals such as Sundance, Berlin, Cannes and TIFF. He is part of the critic groups on Rotten Tomatoes, The Los Angeles Film Critics Association (LAFCA), the Online Film Critics Society (OFCS) and GALECA. His top 3 for 2021: France (Bruno Dumont), Passing (Rebecca Hall) and Nightmare Alley (Guillermo Del Toro). He was a jury member at the 2019 Cleveland International Film Festival.