On the Beach at Night Alone

Name: On the Beach at Night Alone
Genre: Drama
Released: November 17, 2017
Duration: 101 min
Rating: 80
Cast: Hae-hyo Kwon, Jae-hong Ahn, Jae-yeong Jeong, Karl Feder, Kong Hong-Yeol

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Cinema Guild, The | Release Date: November 17, 2017 | Not Rated

Starring: Hae-hyo Kwon, Jae-hong Ahn, Jae-yeong Jeong, Karl Feder, Kong Hong-Yeol, Min-hee Kim, Seon-mi Song, Seong-kun Mun, Sun-yeong Ahn, Young-hwa Seo

Summary: Art imitates life in this quietly devastating masterpiece from Hong Sangsoo. Kim Minhee (The Handmaiden, Right Now, Wrong Then)—in the role that won her the Silver Bear for best actress in Berlin—plays Younghee, an actress reeling in the aftermath of an affair with a married film director. Younghee visits Hamburg then returns to Korea, butArt imitates life in this quietly devastating masterpiece from Hong Sangsoo. Kim Minhee (The Handmaiden, Right Now, Wrong Then)—in the role that won her the Silver Bear for best actress in Berlin—plays Younghee, an actress reeling in the aftermath of an affair with a married film director. Younghee visits Hamburg then returns to Korea, but as she meets with friends and has her fair share to drink, increasingly startling confessions emerge. No stranger to mining his own experience for his films, Hong, whose real-life affair with Kim stirred up a media frenzy in Korea, here confronts his personal life with a newfound emotional directness. [The Cinema Guild]… Expand

Director: Sang-soo Hong

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 101 min

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Richard Brody

Nov 16, 2017

For all its intimacy, the drama has a vast scope, a fierce intensity, and an element of metaphysical whimsy (including one of the great recent dream sequences), which all come to life in the indelibly expressive spontaneity of Kim’s performance. Read full review

The Playlist Jessica Kiang

Feb 17, 2017

whether because of its personal nature, its occasional ferocity, its unusually dark undercurrents, its audacious defiance of expectation and explanation or Kim Min-hee’s essential performance, On The Beach At Night Alone feels like it will be exceptional even for longtime diehard Hong fans. Read full review

The Film Stage Rory O'Connor

Feb 17, 2017

On the Beach at Night Alone, a bittersweet tone poem from South Korean writer-director Hong Sang-soo, thinks many a thought about the universe and the future, mostly expressed through nature and the characters’ anxieties about growing old. Read full review

Guy Lodge

Feb 17, 2017

Unfussy in form, open in expression and gentle in reach as its maker revisits such recurring preoccupations as loneliness, regret and the value of love in life and art. Read full review

Deborah Young

Feb 17, 2017

The story is scarce to non-existent, but Kim Min-hee in the main role keeps the audience awake, waiting for her next socially uncensored outburst of truth. Read full review

Jason Bechervaise

Feb 17, 2017

Kim Min-hee, especially, gives another stellar performance. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Simon Abrams

Nov 17, 2017

A typical Hong character performs the same actions over and over again, with minor, but noticeably different results. Read full review

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Jan 29, 2019

Korean movie star, Young-hee played with some fire by Min-hee Kim has an affair with a married director.

She seems to be rather lost as the affair ends as she vacations in Hamburg Germany. As the film progresses she goes about with her friends back in South Korea to pick up the pieces.Korean movie star, Young-hee played with some fire by Min-hee Kim has an affair with a married director.

She seems to be rather lost as the affair ends as she vacations in Hamburg Germany. As the film progresses she goes about with her friends back in South Korea to pick up the pieces.

The film is strictly a stream of conciousnous story with Young-hee coming off the breakup with a very sharp tongue and demeaner. There are many conversations and Young-hee and the director do finally meet in the movie, but it's bittersweet.

At times she begins to rant, she's very angry, but I didn't see the film as most review it, I don't think it was about the director. I see him only as a catalyst to Young-hee who questions have outstripped her answers.

In the end I believe it was more her doing than his. He seemed to have been caught in her vortex. She feels lost but at that edge is something far more. Outside of common reason, she'll have to find her way back if that's her intention.

This isn't a movie that most would jump for, be sure you enjoy a more sedate and introspective film before jumping in.

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7 Out Of 10

Neat to see a Korean woman in film with large questions and serious results.

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