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The Day After

Geu-hu

2017

Hong Sang-soo

Kim Min-hee, Kwon Hae-hyo, Kim Sae-byeok, Cho Yun-hee ...

6.7

826

Drama A woman who begins a job at a publishing house gets involved in his boss’ affair when the boss’ wife mistakes her for his mistress, a co-worker who he actually just broke up with.

	Author	Review
United States	Boyd van Hoeij The Hollywood Reporter	"A little too familiar and wispy to be counted among Hong’s best work, this should nonetheless please fans of the prolific director, though it is unlikely to bring him many new admirers"	NEU
United States	Guy Lodge Variety	"Lacking the emotional and structural complexity of some recent Hong outings, it’s minor even by his minor-key standards (...) [It] never quite transcends its essential smallness (...) It attains a kind of grace, however, in its final act"	NEU
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"Diverting but slight (...) An amusing if undeveloped sketch (...) An elegant exercise. It feels like a chapter from something bigger (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United Kingdom	Wendy Ide Screendaily	"Korea’s most prolific director delivers more of the same (...) All but the most dedicated fans of the director’s work might find this story a little too diffuse and meandering"	NEG
United States	Nikola Grozdanovic The Playlist	"A soundful and profound cinematic serenade (...) 'The Day After' is a classically Hong-ian movie, which is the biggest compliment it can get."	POS
United States	Barbara Scharres rogerebert.com	"Playful yet rigorous (...) Hong presents a lovely look at empty Seoul streets in the winter darkness, one of the film’s rare acknowledgements of the landscape."	POS
United States	David Ehrlich IndieWire	"There’s no use complaining about 'more of the same' when the great appeal of Hong’s career is that they’re all more of the same (...) 'The Day After' is noticeably more subdued than most of his other movies"	NEU
United States	Chuck Bowen Slant	"As with most Hong Sang-soo films, it engages in intellectual gamesmanship while courting emotional pathos (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"	POS

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