August 19, 9:30 pm
The Woman Who Ran / Domangchin yeoja, 2020, Republic of Korea, 77 min. Режиссёр Хон Сан Су. Silver Bear for Best Director at Berlinale — 2020. Special screening as a part of New Holland Island International Debut Film Festival
While her husband is away on a business trip, a woman goes to the suburbs of Seoul to meet three friends. Engaged in casual conversation, all three of them try to conceal their problems. Only our heroine Gam-hee is happy – it is the first time she has been apart from her husband in five years of marriage. Why did the woman run away?
Hong Sang-soo’s 24th film was screened in the main competition at the Berlinale, where it received the Silver Bear for Best Director and was one of the event’s best received films. The outward similarity of this South Korean festival favourite’s oeuvre has long been a subject of jokes. Upon closer inspection, however, and despite the similar themes and faithfulness to the principles of minimalism, it’s easy to spot many differences between them, mirroring the repetitions that occur within his films. Every Hong Sang-soo film is a puzzle, and together they form a unique labyrinth that people want to return to again and again, in large part thanks to his trademark (self-)irony.
The film is shown in the original language with Russian subtitles and wireless headphones.
Please register in advance (link in Russian).
New Holland Island International Debut Film Festival is a platform for new and daring cinema, whose mission is to support original and distinctive creative statements and inscribe new names into the international context. The festival is organised by the team of the New Holland: Cultural Urbanization project.
