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  • 2020
  • Grasshopper Film
  • 1 h 6 m
  • 2020
  • Grasshopper Film
  • 1 h 6 m

Summary Kwon (Seo Young-hwa) returns to Seoul from a restorative stay in the mountains. She is given a packet of letters left by Mori (Ryo Kase, Like Someone In Love), who has come back from Japan to propose to her. As she walks down a flight of stairs, Kwon drops and scatters the letters, all of which are undated. When she reads them, she has t...

Written By: Hong Sang-soo

  • 2020
  • Grasshopper Film
  • 1 h 6 m
  • 2020
  • Grasshopper Film
  • 1 h 6 m

Hill of Freedom

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Summary Kwon (Seo Young-hwa) returns to Seoul from a restorative stay in the mountains. She is given a packet of letters left by Mori (Ryo Kase, Like Someone In Love), who has come back from Japan to propose to her. As she walks down a flight of stairs, Kwon drops and scatters the letters, all of which are undated. When she reads them, she has t...

Written By: Hong Sang-soo

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 10 Critic Reviews
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Generally Favorable Based on 10 Critic Reviews
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100
Jun 3, 2020
Hong’s deft artistry is an attempt to get past the habits of issue-oriented, advocacy-besotted political cinema to work out just what a political cinema would be. And his answer is: first of all, it’s cinema. In this regard, he connects with Mankiewicz, Resnais, and other great filmmakers for whom politics is an important, interwoven part of life—and of art.
By Richard Brody FULL REVIEW
90
Jun 11, 2020
The ingenuity of the movie’s structure is stimulating and delightful, but there’s one aspect of “Hill” that some may find a trifle exasperating: Even more than any of the sad-sack men who populate the director’s other movies, Mori is kind of a stiff.
By Glenn Kenny FULL REVIEW
83
Jun 11, 2020
Hong gives us a soulful, subtly acerbic, tongue-in-cheek critique of narrative coherence.
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67
Jun 11, 2020
It may amount to less than a hill of beans, but Hill of Freedom is an amiable way to spend 66 minutes learning how even cultures that seem closely related to Western eyes, like those of Japan and Korea, can clash. And also how cultures like these, that seem so far from our own, can be trumped, by love, longing, friendship, sex and drunkenness, the same universal experiences we all share.
By Jessica Kiang FULL REVIEW
63
Jun 11, 2020
It isn’t without its pleasures and insights, but it’s ultimately little more than an excuse for Hong to try out a new stylistic color in his auteurist palette.
By Kenji Fujishima FULL REVIEW
60
Jun 11, 2020
His fans will probably adore it, think it cute and original, the rest of the audience will sigh again in resignation and wonder whether this game of cinema riddles does have anything significant to say behind its smiling, insouciant wrapping.
By Dan Fainaru FULL REVIEW
50
Jun 11, 2020
Clocking in at just over an hour, Hill of Freedom is Hong Sang-soo's shortest feature film to date. And it's his most lightweight, as well, with the Korean auteur merely reshuffling his tried-and-trusted play on non-linear structure, camera movements and characterizations without offering anything decidedly new
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Production Company Jeonwonsa Film
Release Date Jun 12, 2020
Duration 1 h 6 m
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Website https://www.facebook.com/jeonwonsamovie
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Awards

Wildflower Film Awards
• 1 Win & 3 Nominations
Asian Film Awards
• 3 Nominations
Cine21
• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations

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