{"id":609348,"date":"2024-02-20T00:30:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-19T21:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/watch-an-airy-hong-sangsoo-puzzle\/"},"modified":"2024-02-20T00:30:00","modified_gmt":"2024-02-19T21:30:00","slug":"watch-an-airy-hong-sangsoo-puzzle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-an-airy-hong-sangsoo-puzzle\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch An Airy Hong Sangsoo Puzzle"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a35c0ca329e7\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a35c0ca329e7\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-an-airy-hong-sangsoo-puzzle\/#%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_An_Airy_Hong_Sangsoo_Puzzle%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Watch Online An Airy Hong Sangsoo Puzzle&#8221;<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-2' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-an-airy-hong-sangsoo-puzzle\/#%E2%80%9CAn_Airy_Hong_Sangsoo_Puzzle%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;An Airy Hong Sangsoo Puzzle&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_An_Airy_Hong_Sangsoo_Puzzle%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Watch Online An Airy Hong Sangsoo Puzzle&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CAn_Airy_Hong_Sangsoo_Puzzle%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;An Airy Hong Sangsoo Puzzle&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Iris, the petite enigma at the center of \u201cA <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Travel<\/a>er\u2019s Needs,\u201d dresses at once to be noticed, and to dis<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ear. Over a bright sundress, spattered all over with red and violet blossoms, she wears a cardigan of a most assertive, eye-searing green. It\u2019s the grassy hue, in fact, of green-screen backdrops, as we notice when she fades into the foliage of a city park in full summer leaf, or is consumed by the paint job of a tennis court-like roof terrace. Nobody knows exactly where she has come from, beyond the clue of her thick French accent, and even she seems uncertain as to where she\u2019s going: One imagines her, with that effects-friendly knitwear, being dropped into any number of imagined locations, and looking just as out of place as she does on the streets of Seoul.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    But Iris is played, with typically curt, quizzical good humor, by Isabelle Huppert, so we feel like we know her a little better than we do. And so Hong Sangsoo\u2019s latest short, shimmery comedy of the elusive human condition begins its <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/game\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">game<\/a>-playing, inviting the audience to fill in its blanks with the assumptions and judgments we typically make of strangers or superficial acquaintances \u2014 and offering us no eventual scoresheet whatsoever for our guesswork. If Huppert\u2019s endearingly scatty, offhand performance lends proceedings a veil of comfy familiarity, however, \u201cA Traveler\u2019s Needs\u201d nonetheless finds the indefatigable Korean auteur at his most puckishly cryptic. Finding new variations on the geometric structural folding that has marked such recent works as \u201cWalk Up\u201d and \u201cIn Our Day,\u201d Hong somehow slips in even more ellipsis than usual.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    We first encounter Iris in the sparsely furnished, amply sunlit home of Isong (Kim Seungyun), a sweetly diffident young woman, with the two engaged in a peculiar kind of questioning game. Isong plays a short piece at the piano, prettily enough, before Iris asks her benignly what she feels as she plays. An initial benign answer (\u201cHappy\u201d) is pushed, as Iris keeps repeating the question, into more nuanced detail, and finally a complete emotional reversal: No, playing the piano doesn\u2019t make Isong feel happy at all, but aggravated at her inadequate skill. We surmise that she has hired Iris for French lessons, as the two converse in a halting patchwork of French and English. Whether the questioning \u2014 a calm pressing for candor that feels increasingly invasive \u2014 is one of Iris\u2019 teaching techniques, or her own conversational inclination, is something we must decide for ourselves.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Whatever the case, it\u2019s a ploy she uses again and again, in a <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">series<\/a> of encounters that structurally mirror each other, while showing fine shifts in mood from Iris herself. She doesn\u2019t appear to be a professional teacher, with her haphazard walk-and-talk lessons seemingly an improvised way of supporting herself in a city where she knows nobody, and where she has no evident reason to be. The film\u2019s events appear to unfold over the course of an afternoon, but perhaps these vignettes gesture to the <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/general\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"3\" title=\"General\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">general<\/a>, ambling drift of Iris\u2019 routine. A second lesson is with Wonju (Lee Hyeyoung, the marvelous lead of Hong\u2019s \u201cIn Front of Your Face\u201d), and replays some of the dialogue and dynamics of the first, this time with a more complicit understanding between two women of an equivalent age. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    As with Isong, Iris\u2019 politely needling interrogation of Wonju yields poignant memories of family and childhood, though Iris returns these with her own melancholic reflections on mortality. The repetition of scenes and setups with subtle, outcome-altering differences has long been a hallmark of Hong\u2019s work \u2014 most elaborately and effectively in 2015\u2019s \u201cRight Now, Wrong Then\u201d \u2014 though here, the technique emerges from a character with the same fixation. Conversations are recorded and recycled, at least nominally in the name of language improvement. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Yet the longer we spend with Iris, the more she recedes from us, culminating in a nervily funny series of exchanges at the apartment she shares, on entirely inscrutable terms, with mild-mannered young student Inguk (Ha Seongguk). The arrangement is a confounding mystery, especially, to Inguk\u2019s mother \u2014 who voices her bewilderment at this opaque Frenchwoman with a directness that everyone else politely avoids. Inguk cites Iris\u2019 \u201cenlightenment\u201d and \u201csincerity\u201d as points in her favor. \u201cIsn\u2019t that just because she\u2019s old?\u201d his mom snaps back. \u201cHow can you like someone you don\u2019t even know?\u201d Yet it turns out you can: Hong and Huppert draw us into the strange, magnetic backstory of this woman with no history and no obvious future, appealing to our most inquisitive instincts for people-watching and story fabrication, as we warm at least to whoever we imagine her to be. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    As delicately played by Huppert, Iris is hardly a cypher: Her face routinely clouds over with surges of anxiety, or breaks into beatific delight, so we know \u2014 in line with her favorite, much-repeated question \u2014 what she\u2019s feeling, if never exactly what she\u2019s thinking. (Which is the greater tell?) And she seems happily unbothered by what others think or feel about her. Some of the film\u2019s loveliest scenes show Iris contentedly alone, eating bibimbap in a quiet caf\u00e9 or \u2014 alcohol of course being the lifeblood of this director\u2019s cinema \u2014 getting woozily drunk on makgeolli, the milky rice wine that has drawn out some rich confessions in Hongs past, but here induces a soft calm. Iris seems at once blissful and sorrowful, or maybe neither, given the projection that \u201cA Traveler\u2019s Needs\u201d requires of us. Either way, she appears to exist almost exclusively in the present tense. Hong\u2019s sly, slippery oddity suggests there are worse ways to live.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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