Director
Hong Sang-soo
Composer
Hong Sang-soo
Cast
Isabelle Huppert, Lee Hye-young, Kwon Hae-hyo
Edition 2024
90'
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2024
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Drama
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Dialogue:
Korean, French, English
A mysterious French woman with a fondness for the rice wine makgeolli appears in Seoul. The new film by quintessential South Korean cinephile cult director Hong Sang-soo with Isabelle Huppert in the lead is a tragicomic reflection that further builds upon his breezy, philosophical oeuvre of quietly elusive studies of the everyday. Winner of the Grand Jury Prize in Berlin.
Hong Sang-soo seems like the most hard-working man in show business. Almost invariably, the South Korean director releases two films every year. A Traveler's Needs is his third collaboration with French actress Isabelle Huppert. She plays Iris, an eccentric French woman who ended up in Seoul and now shares an apartment with a young student. Their bizarre relationship is a worrying mystery to the student's mother. Iris tries to make a living as a French teacher. Her methods are so strange - she has her students incessantly recite falsified French translations of a personal story by heart - that her character only becomes more enigmatic. Not that Hong (as always taking up the credits of screenwriter, composer, cinematographer and editor) provides us with answers. It's up to the viewer to fill in the gaps. Another breezy entry into one of the most consistent oeuvres by a contemporary filmmaker.
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Credits
Directors
Hong Sang-soo
Composers
Hong Sang-soo
Cast
Isabelle Huppert, Lee Hye-young, Kwon Hae-hyo
Director of Photography
Hong Sang-soo
Editors
Hong Sang-soo
Producers
Hong Sang-soo
Production studios
Jeonwonsa Film
More info
Dialogue
Korean, French, English
Countries of production
South Korea
Year
2024
Filmography
Hong Sang-soo
The Day a Pig Fell Into the Well (1996), The Power of Kangwon Province (1998), Virgin Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors (2000), On the Occasion of Remembering the Turning Gate (2002), Woman Is the Future of Man (2004), Tale of Cinema (2005), Woman on the Beach (2006), Night and Day (2008), Lost in the Mountains (short, 2009), Like You Know It All (2009), Hahaha (2010), Oki's Movie (2010), List (short, 2011), The Day He Arrives (2011), In Another Country (2012), Venice 70: Future Reloaded (2013), Nobody's Daughter Haewon (2013), Our Sunhi (2013), Hill of Freedom (2014), Right Now, Wrong Then (2015), Yourself and Yours (2016), On the Beach at Night Alone (2017), Claire's Camera (2017), The Day After (2017), Grass (2018), Hotel by the River (2018), The Woman Who Ran (2020), Introduction (2021), In Front of Your Face (2021), The Novelist's Film (2022), Walk Up (2022), In Water (2023), In Our Day (2023), A Traveler's Needs (2024)
