{"id":631249,"date":"2024-08-16T16:23:43","date_gmt":"2024-08-16T13:23:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/watch-hong-sangsoos-wry-ode-to-art-love-and-eel\/"},"modified":"2024-08-16T16:23:43","modified_gmt":"2024-08-16T13:23:43","slug":"watch-hong-sangsoos-wry-ode-to-art-love-and-eel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-hong-sangsoos-wry-ode-to-art-love-and-eel\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Hong Sangsoo&#8217;s Wry Ode to Art, Love and Eel"},"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-6a3848b6d5fd4\" 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-6a3848b6d5fd4\" 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-hong-sangsoos-wry-ode-to-art-love-and-eel\/#%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_Hong_Sangsoos_Wry_Ode_to_Art_Love_and_Eel%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Watch Online Hong Sangsoo&#8217;s Wry Ode to Art, Love and Eel&#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-hong-sangsoos-wry-ode-to-art-love-and-eel\/#%E2%80%9CHong_Sangsoos_Wry_Ode_to_Art_Love_and_Eel%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Hong Sangsoo&#8217;s Wry Ode to Art, Love and Eel&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_Hong_Sangsoos_Wry_Ode_to_Art_Love_and_Eel%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Watch Online Hong Sangsoo&#8217;s Wry Ode to Art, Love and Eel&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CHong_Sangsoos_Wry_Ode_to_Art_Love_and_Eel%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Hong Sangsoo&#8217;s Wry Ode to Art, Love and Eel&#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    \u201cBy the Stream,\u201d the 32nd feature by Hong Sangsoo, opens as many of the previous 31 have, with a polite meeting between two softly acquainted people \u2014 neither strangers nor as familiar to each other as they might once have been. Tentative pleasantries are exchanged, before one says to the other, \u201cYou haven\u2019t changed at all.\u201d It\u2019s a premature observation, of course: The ensuing action, such as it is, shows either how much has changed between the two, or how much they\u2019ve forgotten along the way. Distinguished from other Hongs like it by its light autumnal chill and accompanying russet palette, this subtle comedy of actors, academics and dreams set to one side welcomes the director\u2019s steadfast fans like a gentle but hesitant embrace.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Premiering in competition at the Locarno Film Festival, the prolific South Korean\u2019s second feature of 2024 \u2014 following the Isabelle Huppert-starring Berlinale prizewinner \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 \u2014 is likely to be the less widely seen of the two. Both are narratively muted and oblique even by the standards of a director for whom \u201cmuted and oblique\u201d is very much a default setting, but \u201cBy the Stream\u201d is more diffuse and elusive as a character study \u2014 too much so, probably, to win many arthouse converts. The director\u2019s loyalists, however, will be delighted by the film\u2019s breezy romantic streak and a brace of airy, nimble performances by Hong fixtures Kwon Haehyo and Kim Minhee, both playing characters quizzically in search of themselves.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    It\u2019s Sieon (Kwon), a formerly well-regarded actor turned bookstore owner, who observes to his niece Jeonim (Kim) that she hasn\u2019t changed in that introductory scene. She can\u2019t agree, claiming instead that her life has taken \u201ca sudden swerve.\u201d Nor can she even try to return the platitude. No clear explanation is given for Sieon\u2019s career downturn \u2014 vague mentions are made of him criticizing others, and being \u201cattacked\u201d in turn \u2014 but he carries himself with the shuffling air of one who\u2019s become used to keeping his head down. Jeonim, a solitary, diffident art teacher at a Seoul women\u2019s university, has asked him a favor more suited to his former self: The university is holding its annual sketch play festival, and she wants him to write and direct her department\u2019s submission.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    In a fit of nostalgia \u2014 not just for his theater career, but for his youthful participation in a similar contest \u2014 Sieon agrees, though he\u2019s a little put out to learn that he\u2019s a backup choice, the original director having been dismissed after separately sleeping with three members of the cast. (It would be a stretch to describe this droll, low-stakes film as any kind of statement on cancel culture, but one can detect a sly metatextual allusion to the Korean tabloid scandal that greeted his affair with Kim \u2014 now his partner and production manager \u2014 several years ago.) Jeonim doesn\u2019t have to worry about her uncle making the same faux pas: When she introduces him to her boss (and longtime Sieon fan) Jeong (Cho Yunhee), the mutual attraction is im<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a>tely <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>arent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Cue a number of the boozy mealtime scenes that are Hong\u2019s stock-in-trade, as Jeong invites Sieon for lunch at her favorite eel restaurant, followed by further, fluttery-eyed lunch and dinner dates, with Jeonim as an increasingly passive-aggressive third wheel. Few filmmakers can navigate the dynamics of a dining table quite so wittily, with the characters\u2019 intimacies and hostilities mapped out in what they eat (does seafood porridge signify the beginning or the end of a flirtation?), how they eat it, and crucially, their choice of accompanying drink \u2014 which shifts from cautiously civil wine to tongue-loosening <em>makgeolli.<\/em> Amid all this gourmet wooing, the sketch becomes a decidedly secondary concern, while Jeonim \u2014 a loner given to idle drawing by the local stream and sleeping outside even in the brisk fall weather \u2014 retreats further into herself.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Even this description makes \u201cBy the Stream\u201d sound plottier than it feels, as Hong\u2019s storytelling is really measured in glances, pauses and, in a somewhat cosmic new flourish, phases of the moon. Sudden emotional spillages come at unexpected points, as in one oddly moving scene when Sieon asks his quartet of young amateur actresses what they want to become, prompting a range of earnest responses from \u201ca person who loves truly\u201d to \u201cI\u2019ll light the smallest lamp in the corner and protect it until I die.\u201d This kind of tender sentimentality isn\u2019t par for the course with Hong, a filmmaker whose essential feature template may be close to self-parody in its consistency, but allows for a fluid, ever-expanding spectrum of moods, feelings and foibles. Once again, the cinema of Hong Sangsoo hasn\u2019t changed at all, except in the ways that it has.<\/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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