RIGHT NOW, WRONG THEN (RÉTROSPECTIVE HONG SANGSOO)
Right Now, Wrong Then
Jigeumeun matgo geuttaeneun teullida Corée du Sud 2015 | Hong Sangsoo | vostEN |
121’ | digital | Cast : Jung Jae-young, Kim Min-hee
► Golden Leopard and Best Actor, Locarno 2015
While on a visit to another town, a married film director falls for a young
painter not once but two times, as Hong tells the same story twice with small
but very telling variations.
« Taken as a single, 120-minute work, the small differences in the dialogue and
attitudes of parts one and two reveal nothing less than the humanity, inner life
and subconscious decision-making processes of the characters, turning the whole
into one of Hong’s strongest features to date. » (Hollywood Reporter)
« Either hour alone would be a wry, incisive, quietly painful drama, set at the
intersection of art and life, about foregrounded action and the weight of
personal history. Together, the two parts make a radical fiction about the
crucial role of imagination in lived experience. Hong’s narrative gamesmanship
reveals agonized regret. » (The New Yorker)
