(2010) ★★★
Film4: PREMIERE Tuesday 6 October, 2.20am
Korean film-maker Lee Sun-kyun (standing in Marcello Mastroianni/Fellini-style for the film’s actual writer-director, Hong Sang-soo) struggles with life in general and women in particular in a bittersweet treatise on the riddles of the human heart and mind.
It’s funny in a deadpan way, closer in querulous tone to Woody Allen than to minor-key Mike Leigh, despite the use of Edward Elgar’s Pomp and Circumstance in between the four chapters: A Day for Incantation, King of Kisses, After the Snowstorm, and Oki’s Movie. It might appear aimless but it’s actually sharp as a dart.
Certificate: 12
Duration: 98min
