Domangchin yeoja

"You really should just stop talking."

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Also know as 'The Woman Who Ate, Drank, Slept, Opened Windows, Looked At Security Camera Footage and Met With Three Friends Who Are All Connected By Images Of a Mountain'. As with all the Sang-soo films that I've seen to date, there is a confessional quality to this story that makes for an honest film, which is rare in this day and age of hyper self-awareness and posturing (indeed Gam-hee rightly accuses Mr Jung of such a crime). The Sang-soo/Min-hee relationship is special for cinema.

there's something therapeutic to hong sang-soo's style of filmmaking. most *realist* films shine as they manage to capture those small moments of any given day and tie that to over-arching themes of the narrative, but sangsoo completely relies on those moments and brings out the half-truths of our own narratives as the over-arching theme of filmmaking. the reflexivity of his films (in every sense of the word) comes from their layered understanding of the ordinary and they are joy to watch.

Viewed October 3, 2020.

Felt like a glimpse into a world I can never fully understand or be part of, a slight yet powerful look into female friendships and how intrusive men can be. At times I felt almost envious, at times I was considering my own past (and not just distant past, tbqh) behaviour, at times I was admiring the disorientating yet bizarrely fitting use of zooms…..really got to me.

The art of great magic lies in the simplicity of its illusions; and in The Woman Who Ran, Hong Sang-soo plays the most graceful of cinematic tricks - showing off his deft touch for disguising elegant metaphor behind the bluntly-dull realism of everyday life.

More straightforward and (seemingly) less playful than other HSS entries, but still so rewarding. We never know which woman is running and what from. Every encounter has such a weird, adorable, yet poignant aura among doorbells, surveillance cams, cinema session, some coffee and booze drinking and, mostly, the fact that the she is, for the first time in five years of marriage, on her own. She doesn't if she loves him; seems to be going with the flow. Strange, beautiful -- that cat scene is aces.

Three conversations between women, with occasional moments of male disruption. Circumstances and motives can often only be guessed, but focusing on the plot instead of the characters and their interactions would be missing the point entirely.

Enjoyable.