Ban-ya Choi, Chan Jung, Chang-wook Won
A movie director entices his young friend to come to the beach on the pretext of writing a script. He then starts an affair with the friend's girlfriend.
DVD Release Date: December 30, 2008
Stats: 55 reviews
Hong continues to dissect relationships between men and women, using his unique voice. His strength comes in balancing the arguments between the characters. Woman on the Beach is far more talkative than his earlier, Virgin Stripped Bare By Her Bachelor's. Here, the verbal philoso...( read more)
My first Hong, not bad. Well constructed romantic triangles that mirrors each other. Hong has a nice eye for composition, though his zoom-in's are not something I'm used to. He seems to borrow Antonioni's use of narrative digressions. Also I can't help but think of 8 1/2 when I'm...( read more)
Normally elements like a blocked-up screenwriter and hot-cold-hot relationship issues would raise some red flags, but hey, it's Korean. Look out Bujalski, you got some foreign competition.
The film is exremely boring well I like many long films that people find boring however this one has very simple task and very simple dialogues this is what bores you. reveals some everyday social matters people can not see underneath.
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