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  • 2009
  • Not Rated
  • IFC Films
  • 2 h 24 m
  • 2009
  • Not Rated
  • IFC Films
  • 2 h 24 m

Summary Sungnam, a married man in his early forties who is an award-winning painter, shows up with his big traveling bag at the Charles De Gaulie Airport in Paris. He makes a sudden escape to a foreign land where he knows no one in order to flee from an arrest after smoking marijuana while he was drunk at a coincidental gathering. In the 14th di...

Directed By: Hong Sang-soo

Written By: Hong Sang-soo

  • 2009
  • Not Rated
  • IFC Films
  • 2 h 24 m
  • 2009
  • Not Rated
  • IFC Films
  • 2 h 24 m

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Summary Sungnam, a married man in his early forties who is an award-winning painter, shows up with his big traveling bag at the Charles De Gaulie Airport in Paris. He makes a sudden escape to a foreign land where he knows no one in order to flee from an arrest after smoking marijuana while he was drunk at a coincidental gathering. In the 14th di...

Directed By: Hong Sang-soo

Written By: Hong Sang-soo

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 5 Critic Reviews
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100
Filmmakers from Jacques Rivette to Hou Hsiao-hsien have treated the City of Light like Alice’s rabbit hole; writer-director Hong Sang-soo similarly embraces the fantasy, but goes one step further in this extraordinary character study by fully erasing the line that separates the actual from the fictional.
By Keith Uhlich FULL REVIEW
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Some of it is hilarious, some sad, all filtered through Hong's inimitably wry take on the unbearable lightness of being . . . himself.
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Very Korean in its emotional content, while also preserving a quizzical distance that is quite French, picture is one of his lightest and most easily digestible metaphysical meals to date.
By Derek Elley FULL REVIEW
70
Regardless of critics' assertion of a change in style, Hong core group of intellectual admirers will still find pleasure in his cerebral film language, nuanced dialogue, and droll observations of a Korean abroad.
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Korean director Hong Sang-soo unleashes yet another emotionally stunted antihero in Night and Day, a rambling study of male arrested development.
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Production Company B.O.M. Film Productions Co.
Release Date Oct 23, 2009
Duration 2 h 24 m
Rating Not Rated
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Tagline Everything is what it seems.
Website http://www.bitters.co.jp/paris/
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Awards

Korean Association of Film Critics Awards
• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations
Busan Film Critics Association (BCFA)
• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations
Buil Film Awards
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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