Introduction

Name: Introduction
Genre: Drama
Released: January 21, 2022
Duration: 66 min
Rating: 77
Cast: Ji-won Ye, Joo-Bong Ki, Ju-bong Gi, Mi-so Park, Min-hee Kim

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Cinema Guild | Release Date: January 21, 2022 | Not Rated

Starring: Ji-won Ye, Joo-Bong Ki, Ju-bong Gi, Mi-so Park, Min-hee Kim, Seok-ho Shin, Seong-guk Ha, Suk-ho Shin, Sung-guk Ha, Young-ho Kim, Young-hwa Seo, Yun-hee Cho

Summary: Youngho (Shin Seokho) goes to see his father who is tending to a famous patient. He surprises his girlfriend, Juwon (Park Miso), in Berlin where she is studying fashion design. He goes to a seaside hotel to meet his mother and brings his friend Jeongsoo (Ha Seongguk) with him. In each instance, he anticipates an important conversation. ButYoungho (Shin Seokho) goes to see his father who is tending to a famous patient. He surprises his girlfriend, Juwon (Park Miso), in Berlin where she is studying fashion design. He goes to a seaside hotel to meet his mother and brings his friend Jeongsoo (Ha Seongguk) with him. In each instance, he anticipates an important conversation. But sometimes a shared look, or a shared smoke, can mean as much as anything we could say to those close to us.… Expand

Director: Sang-soo Hong

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 66 min

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Justin Chang

Jan 28, 2022

Introduction’s economy is deceptive, its staying power surprising. Read full review

Chuck Bowen

Mar 4, 2021

The film is a modern melodrama of grit, beauty, jagged edges, and resonant dead ends and false starts. Read full review

The Playlist Caitlin Quinlan

Mar 4, 2021

Introduction initially feels like a smaller, quieter addition to the filmmaker’s oeuvre. Still, it proves to be another delicate and profound testament to how our lives can always be intertwined with those from our past, to the everyday human interactions, and especially to the honesty and wide-eyed possibility of youth. Read full review

Jessica Kiang

Mar 3, 2021

This tiny little movie makes seemingly effortless work of convincing us that a comment, a story, a film and maybe even a whole filmography can be both important and casual — in Hong’s case, radically casual — at the same time. It makes Introduction as bracing as a brief dip in a freezing sea after a rather too soju-soaked luncheon. Read full review

Jenny Nulf

Feb 2, 2022

Introduction feels like a mediation on how time chips away at first impressions: What started as something beautiful and simple can become complicated, unattainable, and hard to hold on to. Read full review

The Playlist Mark Asch

Oct 12, 2021

Hong these days acts as his own D.P., editor, and composer, as well as being a writer-director, and there’s a stark elegance to Introduction, a sense of an artist honing his craft down to its simplest, most telling gestures. Read full review

IndieWire David Ehrlich

Mar 4, 2021

Slight and discursive even by the filmmaker’s idiosyncratic standards, Introduction refuses to auto-correct for anyone who doesn’t already speak conversational Hong. Read full review

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JLuis_001

Sep 10, 2022

Even for the other films of his that were released after this one, there are many arguments that can be made that Introduction feels like a sort of stalemate for the prolific South Korean director.

I won't say it's a weak film because I don't really consider it that way, but within reason,Even for the other films of his that were released after this one, there are many arguments that can be made that Introduction feels like a sort of stalemate for the prolific South Korean director.

I won't say it's a weak film because I don't really consider it that way, but within reason, I must admit the impression it left on me was minimal compared to some of his other works.… Expand

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