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Bookmark this pageTale of Cinema (2005)
Director: Hong Sang-Soo
Movie review
From Time Out London
Another of Hong’s deceptively small, multi-layered films, this starts off depicting what turns out to be a suicidal relationship of a young couple. We then realise that what we have been watching is a film-within-a-film, and a rather odd young film-maker – who was at film school with the director of the movie we and he have been watching – latches on to the actress who was in that film… Will life imitate art, or history repeat itself, or what? Such are the questions raised by Hong’s movie, which succeeds both as character study and as a wry meditation both on the relationship between reality and representation and on the passing of time. It’s a delicate film, as discreet in its observations as its predecessors, but no less enjoyable or impressive for all that.Author: GA
Time Out London Issue 1836: October 26-November 2 2005
Cast & crew
Director: Hong Sang-Soo
Cast: Eom Ji-Weon, Lee Gi-Woo, Kim Sang-Gyeon full cast
Genre(s): Drama
Duration: 89 mins
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