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SFFILM Festival

Right Now, Wrong Then

Directed by Hong Sang-soo

South Korea | 121

5 May
Thu, May 5, 2016 at 8:00 pm PT

Description

A middle-aged artist, a young ingénue, existential crises, romantic fumblings and confessional drinkathons—like Monet and his water lilies, Hong Sang-soo keeps returning to the same basic material and refining his pitch-perfect preoccupations of what fools lovelorn men are. And as with several of the South Korean filmmaker’s recent works, his latest character study revolves around a single situation being reprised with very different results. Famous director Ham (Jung Jae-young), travels from Seoul to present one of his movies at a festival. Desperate to kill time, he visits a local Buddhist monastery and meets Hee-jung (Kim Min-hee), a beautiful painter who’s never heard of him. They spend the rest of the afternoon talking about life,and art; once the drinks switch from tea to copious beers with Hee-jung’s friends, however, secrets are spilled and love connections cut short. Then, out of nowhere, the reset button is pushed and Right Now, Wrong Then is right back at the beginning—but with subtle differences—in a film that confirms that the creator of this moral tale remains a thoroughly contemporary heir to French New Wave director Eric Rohmer’s offbeat romantic cinema. —David Fear

Director Hong Sang-soo

Ever since making his feature-film debut in 1996 with The Day the Pig Fell into the Well, Hong Sang-soo has remained one of the most prolific and vital South Korean filmmakers working today. A graduate of both Cal Arts and the Art Institute of Chicago, the Seoul-born director has collected awards at film festivals in Pusan, Cannes, Rotterdam and beyond. Right Now, Wrong Then is his 17th film and the recent winner of the Golden Leopard at Locarno.

Film Details

Language Korean

Year 2015

Runtime 121

Country South Korea

Director Hong Sang-soo

Producer Kim Kyoung-hee

Writer Hong Sang-soo

Editor Hahm Sung-won

Cinematographer Park Hong-yeol

Music Jeong Yong-jin

Cast Jung Jae-young, Kim Min-hee