The Day After

Name: The Day After
Genre: Drama, Romance
Released: May 11, 2018
Duration: 92 min
Rating: 72
Cast: Hae-hyo Kwon, Ki Joabang, Min-hee Kim, Sae-byeok Kim, Yunhee Cho

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The Day After

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Cinema Guild | Release Date: May 11, 2018

Starring: Hae-hyo Kwon, Ki Joabang, Min-hee Kim, Sae-byeok Kim, Yunhee Cho

Summary: Book publisher Bongwan’s (Kwon Haehyo) marriage is on the rocks after his wife (Cho Yunhee) discovers the affair he’s been having with his assistant (Kim Saebyuk). Now that relationship is ending too and Bongwan’s new assistant, the sharp and sensitive Areum (Kim Minhee), on her first day in the office, is left to navigate the fallout ofBook publisher Bongwan’s (Kwon Haehyo) marriage is on the rocks after his wife (Cho Yunhee) discovers the affair he’s been having with his assistant (Kim Saebyuk). Now that relationship is ending too and Bongwan’s new assistant, the sharp and sensitive Areum (Kim Minhee), on her first day in the office, is left to navigate the fallout of all the turnover in Bongwan’s life. … Expand

Director: Sang-soo Hong

Genre(s): Drama, Romance

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 92 min

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The Playlist - Nikola Grozdanovic

May 24, 2017

Infidelity has long been one of Hong’s central subjects, but The Day After might just be his greatest film about the ails of mixing business with pleasure. Read full review

The New Yorker - Richard Brody

May 10, 2018

Avowals of literary ambitions and familial devotion, stories of death and faith, and a bold dramatic structure—based on flashbacks and leaps forward in time—set the vagaries of work and love on the firm footing of destiny. Read full review

Los Angeles Times - Robert Abele

May 17, 2018

The machination is comic, and the repercussions carry the awkward tinge of threadbare farce, but the vibe is pure melancholy, echoed in the clinically beautiful monochromatic cinematography and the tinny, weeping musical phrase Hong often leans on to close his extended takes of dialogue. Read full review

Variety - Guy Lodge

May 24, 2017

Even lesser Hong has its lackadaisical pleasures, and The Day After has its share of wry musings and twitchy banter between characters to counter its visual stasis and lulling storytelling. Read full review

The Hollywood Reporter - Boyd van Hoeij

May 24, 2017

Hong, who again wrote as well as directed, hasn’t suddenly become someone interested in things such as densely plotted narratives and surprise twists, with the few events that happen only excuses to dig a little deeper into the behavior and feelings of his protagonists. Read full review

IndieWire - David Ehrlich

May 25, 2017

The film is carried along on a powerful undercurrent of regret, and it comes to feel as though Bong-wan is a prisoner in the book-lined office where he ostensibly holds all the power. Read full review

The A.V. Club - Mike D'Angelo

May 8, 2018

A lazy shoulder shrug of a movie that never bothers to work out who its characters are, what they want, or why their ostensible problems should be of interest to anyone else. Read full review

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