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  • 2019
  • The Cinema Guild
  • 1 h 6 m
  • 2019
  • The Cinema Guild
  • 1 h 6 m
Grass

Summary In the corner of a small cafeé, Areum (Kim Minhee) sits typing on her laptop. At the tables around her, other customers enact the various dramas of their lives. A young couple charge each other with serious crimes, an old man tries to rekindle a flame with a younger woman, a narcissistic filmmaker works to put together his next project—a...

Directed By: Hong Sang-soo

Written By: Hong Sang-soo

  • 2019
  • The Cinema Guild
  • 1 h 6 m
  • 2019
  • The Cinema Guild
  • 1 h 6 m

Grass

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 8 Critic Reviews
77
User Score Generally Favorable
7.3
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Summary In the corner of a small cafeé, Areum (Kim Minhee) sits typing on her laptop. At the tables around her, other customers enact the various dramas of their lives. A young couple charge each other with serious crimes, an old man tries to rekindle a flame with a younger woman, a narcissistic filmmaker works to put together his next project—a...

Directed By: Hong Sang-soo

Written By: Hong Sang-soo

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91
Are the grand and absurd moments of our lives perhaps more closely acquainted with one another then we’d like to admit? Grass seems to think so, and it delivers that assumption with a welcome–indeed, almost humane–dose of humor.
By Rory O'Connor FULL REVIEW
90
Grass demonstrates a fresh type of playfulness from the prolific filmmaker. It’s a movie filled with his usual intimacy, but it’s also one that’s purposefully more concerned with the bigger picture than the individual details.
By Sarah Ward FULL REVIEW
83
Apr 15, 2019
What’s most fascinating about Grass is the way Hong modulates the film’s atmosphere, gradually transforming its banal beginnings into something genuinely haunting and unresolved.
By Lawrence Garcia FULL REVIEW
80
Apr 18, 2019
When the writer opts to just let things be, the movie is at its most content.
By Glenn Kenny FULL REVIEW
75
For all the artists that populate Hong’s cinematic universe, the director has yet to foreground the creative psyche in as thought-provoking of a manner as he does in Grass.
By Bradley Warren FULL REVIEW
70
Kim’s Areum is edgy, multi-layered and far from docile.
By Deborah Young FULL REVIEW
67
Much less consistently enjoyable than many Hong films twice its length, Grass compensates for its dramatic slackness and deviant sobriety by honing in on the ideas that its director’s work often skirts around.
By David Ehrlich FULL REVIEW

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Generally Favorable Based on 4 User Ratings
7.3
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Production Company Jeonwonsa Film
Release Date Apr 19, 2019
Duration 1 h 6 m
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Awards

Wildflower Film Awards
• 2 Nominations
International Cinephile Society Awards
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Berlin International Film Festival
• 1 Nomination

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