Paris Asia Film Series, "Night and Day"

Smithsonian Institution Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery

Submitted by Andrea on July 22, 2009 - 9:57pm

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After he's arrested for smoking marijuana, a famous Korean painter flees to Paris where, between emotional calls home to his wife, he falls in with a group of expatriate Koreans and becomes smitten with a beautiful young art student. But repeated coincidences and surreal images gradually blur the line between the real and the imaginary. Director Hong Sang-soo's characteristic dry humor suffuses his portrayal of Koreans living abroad, the allure of Paris, and his feckless hero's neuroses and delusions. "Some of it is hilarious, some sad, all filtered through Hong's inimitably wry take on the unbearable lightness of being" (Scott Foundas, Village Voice). Intended for mature audiences. (Dir.: Hong Sang-soo, Korea, 2008, 144 min., Korean and French with English subtitles)