The Novelist's Film

Name: The Novelist's Film
Genre: Drama
Released: October 28, 2022
Duration: 92 min
Rating: 82
Cast: Hae-hyo Kwon, Ju-bong Gi, Kim Si-Ha, Lee Eun-mi, Lee Hye-yeong

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Cinema Guild | Release Date: October 28, 2022 | Not Rated

Starring: Hae-hyo Kwon, Ju-bong Gi, Kim Si-Ha, Lee Eun-mi, Lee Hye-yeong, Mi-so Park, Min-hee Kim, Seo Younghwa, Sung-guk Ha, Yunhee Cho

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Winner of the second-place Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize at the 2022 Berlin International Film Festival.

Summary: Junhee (Lee Hyeyoung) is a novelist who's grown disenchanted with her own writing. On a trip to see an old friend, she runs into a film director who was set to adapt one of her novels before the project fell through. One chance encounter leads to another and soon she finds herself having lunch with Kilsoo (Kim Minhee), a well-known actressJunhee (Lee Hyeyoung) is a novelist who's grown disenchanted with her own writing. On a trip to see an old friend, she runs into a film director who was set to adapt one of her novels before the project fell through. One chance encounter leads to another and soon she finds herself having lunch with Kilsoo (Kim Minhee), a well-known actress also questioning her role as an artist. It’s then that Junhee has an epiphany: she will make a film starring Kilsoo. It won’t be like other films. It will be the novelist’s film.
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Director: Sang-soo Hong

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 92 min

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Justin Chang

Nov 9, 2022

The structuring theme of The Novelist’s Film may be artistic frustration, the kind that can spur a writer to call it quits, an actor to take a break and even an established director to reconsider his calling. But it’s also very much about finding creative renewal in unexpected places — a bookstore, an outdoor trail, a movie theater — and learning to embrace, rather than resist, life’s beautifully meandering flow. Read full review

Austin Considine

Oct 27, 2022

A Chekhovian study in small moments and chance encounters, which is to say it is a study of human beings as they really live: ambiguously and without exposition, spontaneously and without tidy motives or resolution. Read full review

Jake Cole

Feb 16, 2022

The film proves that Hong Sang-soo has yet to exhaust his methods of deriving significance and beauty from the most quotidian of details. Read full review

Guy Lodge

Feb 18, 2022

Ultimately, The Novelist’s Film defends the idea of drift and hiatus, of time spent idling to hear your own thoughts, in their own sweet time. Read full review

Mike Shutt

Nov 2, 2022

The style, tone, and characters will be familiar to you, but there will be a richness that might not be there otherwise. Then again, Hong Sang-soo is a keen observer of humanity and a skilled enough filmmaker that it probably works terrifically on its own. Read full review

Richard Brody

Oct 24, 2022

The Novelist’s Film is straightforwardly chronological and naturalistic, but that makes it no less intricate or sophisticated a reflection on the nature of movies, both intellectual and practical. Read full review

David Rooney

Feb 18, 2022

The deadpan edge of much of the film’s 90 minutes of prattle conceals thoughts on the insularity of creative communities, the ticking clock of an artist’s life and the importance of remaining open to finding truth even in what appear to be random connections. Read full review

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