Rendezvous in Seoul: Sang-soo Gets Spare in Conversational Triptych
Ending a rare year-long absence from the cinema (an observation of note since he presents two...
Prolific South Korean auteur Hong Sang-soo’s twenty-first feature, The Day After, was also his second time competing for the Palme d’Or when it premiered...
Three Women: Sang-soo Goes for Slight(ly) Sober in Black and White Mix-up
South Korea’s Hong Sangsoo surpasses his own prolific, breakneck speed with a whopping...
The thrill of meeting Marjane Satrapi reminded me of being 6 years old at Disney Land when I met the living, breathing Cinderella. Except Cinderella was an actress with a blond wig and Marjane is the real woman behind her autobiographical graphic novel, turned movie, “Persepolis”. The distinctive mole on her nose and her dark sultry eyes rose off the page and appeared in front of me, smoking and speaking with a French accent.