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In Another Country

Screening on Film
Directed by Hong Sangsoo.
With Isabelle Huppert, Yu Junsang, Jung Yumi.
South Korea, 2011, 35mm, color, 89 min.
Korean and English with English subtitles.
Print source: Kino Lorber

Hong's fascination with the awkward performative dimensions of romance and the social contract in general finds its richest expression to date in this tour-de-force star vehicle for Isabelle Huppert. In three distinct roles, beginning first as a French filmmaker openly modeled on Claire Denis, Huppert subtly transforms herself across a trio of stories invented by a young aspiring filmmaker furiously writing as a distraction from an unnamed family trauma. Huppert's richly comic yet poignant encounters with strangers and lovers reveals Hong's narrative sophistication to lie beyond In Another Country’s film-within-a-film structure and instead within the careful intertwining of the three stories through a series of echoes that reveal the film's larger themes of loneliness, womanly charm and self-absorbed machismo.

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