BIFF: Hotel by the River (2018)
Hotel by the River is a slight, but interesting experiment for Hong Sang-soo aficionados.
Scattered Letters, Mended Stories: The Deconstructed and Reconstructed Films of the 2014 Brisbane Asia Pacific Film Festival
Hong Sang-soo’s Hill of Freedom begins with a language teacher, Kwon (Young-hwa Seo) collecting a parcel of letters from an ex-lover named Mori (Ryô Kase). She begins to read – learning that Mori has travelled from Japan to Korea to visit her – but after only reading a fraction of his story, she is overcome…
