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Night and Day / Bam guan nat Series: 46th New York Film Festival [Sept. 26 – Oct. 12, 2008] Director: Hong Sang-soo, Country: South Korea, Release: 2008, Runtime: 144 "An international critic’s favorite! Thoughtful, ruminative, sexy romances set in South Korea’s upper-bohemian scene.” – Logan Hill, New York Magazine Sung-nam is a 40ish, married painter who takes it on the lam to Paris after getting caught smoking pot with some American tourists in Seoul. But his escape doesn’t come a moment too soon: feeling trapped in life and blocked in his art, the getaway proves welcome — only now that he’s actually settled in the City of Light, what should he do? Hong Sang-soo (Woman on the Beach, NYFF 2006) creates a beautifully observed, characteristically wry chronicle of Sung-nam’s attempt to savor his wandering year even if it’s come 20 years too late. Not speaking a word of French, Sung-nam joins a floating group of Korean ex-pats and exchange students. When he meets art student Hyun-ju and her roommate Yu-jeong, it could be that love is in the air—or is it just Paris? Hong’s eye for telling details has never been sharper, and Sung-nam’s running commentary on the French and those aspiring to live like them is often hilariously perceptive. Hong Sang-soo b. 1960, Seoul, Korea 2006 Woman on the Beach NYFF 2005 Tale of Cinema NYFF 2004 Woman Is the Future of Man NYFF 2002 Turning Gate NYFF 2000 Virgin Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors 1998 The Power of Kangwon Province 1996 The Day a Pig Fell Into the Well

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