The Hong Sangsoo Retrospective at HFA in the Boston Phoenix
"Your sincerity needs its own form," a film professor advises a student in prolific Korean director Hong Sangsoo's most recent work, OKI'S MOVIE. "Form will take you to the truth. Telling it like it is won't get you there." Ironic context aside - which is almost never the case with this most sardonic of filmmakers - these principles lie at the heart of Hong's films, which are being shown in a must-see retrospective at the Harvard Film Archive. The sincerity of the material - disillusionment, dissolution, deluded love - is inescapable. But the form - arbitrary, ingenious, diabolical - is what prevails.
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