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On the Beach at Night Alone

On the Beach at Night Alone

2017
Drama
1h 41m
An actress wanders around a seaside town, pondering her relationship with a married man.
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On the Beach at Night Alone

2017
Drama
1h 41m
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Avg Percentile 54.91% from 213 total ratings

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Rated 13 Jan 2018
41
26th
Sang-soo Hong is one of those minimalist auteurs of marginal differentiations so revered because liking the same monotone film over and over amounts to a willful act of connoisseurship - we feel as if we have worked at something, participated in the creation of meaning. Once in 2002 he made a genuinely mysterious Buddhist film about doubles and the repetition of stories. Now it's two movies a year, all of them interchangeable. He'll still zoom in and out of dinner conversations when he's 110.
Rated 12 Mar 2019
71
75th
Don't fuck with her at the dinner table!
Rated 10 Oct 2017
85
89th
With each new film Hong Sang-soo dips his toes a little farther in terms of refining his technique or expanding his narrative horizons, and this is another solid entry into his canon. It features a great performance by Kim Min-hee and the usual naturalism in the writing and scenario. This time around we're thrown for a loop once in a while when the odd (presumably metaphorical) character pops into the frame for a bit then vanishes back into the protagonist's jumbled memories. Nicely done.
Rated 24 Oct 2017
85
92nd
Sang-soo's open letter about relationships, cinema and the connections and situations that make both things uncomfortably dramatic, awkward and unescapable. Less zooming than usual, but two-part narrative serving a woman's torment and a sense of displacement in an artistic world that now seems both familiar and strange - suicidal thoughts filtered by funny remarks or curious flashes of a weird man asking what time is it or cleaning a window. Love ghosts are real and they follow you everywhere.
Rated 29 Jun 2018
84
75th
The surrealist elements really bring dimension to the relational tensions experienced by Young-hee. Hong's two-act structure works very well here, given the different perspective Young-hee has in each section. That Hong underplays this distinction allows us to perceive it slowly, a sort of dawning awareness that he brings to a close beautifully with the pairing of two beach scenes.
Rated 23 Jun 2022
79
61st
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Rated 17 Nov 2017
85
59th
Viewed November 16, 2017.
Rated 29 Mar 2017
20
0th
This was the first movie by Sang-soo Hong for me, and I knew right away that I was not going to like his works. It just was not the type of film I would find interesting, meaningful, or beautiful.
Rated 19 Jan 2018
70
57th
kamera hareketleri makyajsızlıktan ziyade acemilik hissi verse de başlarda, zaman içerisinde yönetmenin diğer işlerine benzer samimi bir gündeliği hissettiriyor. biçim olarak bu hissiyatı destekleyişi başarılı olsa da sinematografik olarak öne çıkan yanı geriye bıraktığı üç imaj: ikisi kumsalda, birisi köprüde. bu dahi aslında farklı bir boyutta hareket ettiğinin göstergesi oluyor.
Rated 10 Apr 2017
80
75th
36. İstanbul Film Festivali - İtalyan Kültür Merkezi.
Rated 24 Mar 2018
40
12th
boring
Rated 19 Nov 2019
4
70th
A very sparse and introverted film, which finds empathy through patient and unyielding observation. Watching Kim navigate her way through social niceties while occasionally spilling her guts is often wrenching. And yet, it has a subdued dignity.
Rated 20 Aug 2018
4
55th
less a typical hong than a space for his leading lady to find closure and whitmanian similitude after their much-publicised, damaging (to her) IRL affair. from the subtler-than-usual formal gimmicks (much of it seems either a film-within-a-film or an imagining) to the surreal flourishes, hong's devoted to kim's headspace here, and the result is more abstract, passive and serious than his usual schtick. that isn't necessarily to my tastes, but idk that he can approach this topic any other way.
Rated 08 Jun 2022
77
59th
This being my eighth film by Hong Sang-soo, I pretty much knew what I was in for, but I must say I quite enjoyed this one. Kim Min-hee is as great as ever, and the metatextual elements give the film a deeper resonance.
Rated 22 May 2022
60
32nd
More vibes than something to be actively engaged in. Just gotta let wisps of dialogue wash over you.
Rated 28 Oct 2023
75
82nd
On this occasion in the Hong Sang-soo cinematic universe, Kim Min-hee does Kim Min-hee things but this time in Hamburg (as well as, of course, in Korea). What became apparent to me in watching this particular Hong Sang-soo film (he's prolific) is his gift not only for directing highly barbed verbal interchanges - in the tradition of Bergman - but also for directing physical humour (e.g., the dude washing windows). I get comfort from Hong Sang-soo films like I get comfort from Rivette films.

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