# The Hong Sangsoo Retrospective at HFA in the Boston Phoenix January 31, 2011 "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. Read more: Related Links: [http://thephoenix.com/Boston/movies/114585-laid-back-intricacies-of-hong-sangsoo...](http://thephoenix.com/Boston/movies/114585-laid-back-intricacies-of-hong-sangsoo-at-the-h/) See also:- [ Featured Events ](/news-type/featured-events) Share on:- [ Facebook ](#) - [ Twitter ](#) - [ Linkedin ](#)