2 June 2012

In Another Country



Hong Sang-soo : 2012
Da-reun na-ra-e-suh

A young film student and her mother run away to the coastal town of Mohang to escape their mounting debt. The young woman begins writing a script for a short film in order to calm her nerves. Three women named Anne appear, and each woman consecutively visits the seaside town of Mohang. The first Anne is a successful film director. The second Anne is a married woman secretly in an affair with a Korean man. The third Anne is a divorcée whose husband left her for a Korean woman. A young woman tends to the small hotel by the Mohang foreshore owned by her parents. A certain lifeguard can always be seen wandering up and down the beach that lies nearby. Each Anne stays at this small hotel, receives some assistance from the owner's daughter, and ventures onto the beach where they meet the lifeguard. This three-tiered story, centred on a trio of French tourists visiting the same South Korean seaside resort, premiered at Festival de Cannes 2012.

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