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Trailer for Upcoming Korean Movie “Hotel by the River” by Hong Sang-soo

Long walks, meals, drinks, conversations and are all back in Korean auteur 's latest monochrome offering “”.

Synopsis

An old poet staying for free in a riverside hotel summons his two estranged sons. This is because he feels, for no apparent reason, like he is going to die. After being betrayed by the man she was living with, a young woman gets a room at the hotel. Seeking support, she summons a friend. The poet spends a day with his sons and tries to wrap up the loose ends in his life. But it's not so easy to do that in one day. But then he sees the young woman and her friend, after a sudden, unbelievably heavy snowfall.

Apart from Hong Sang-soo's muse Kim Min-hee (“Right Now, Wrong Then”, “The Handmaiden”), the film stars regular Hong Sang-soo collaborators (“The Day He Arrives”, “On The Beach At Night Alone”), (“In Another Country”, “The Day After”), Yoo Jun-sang (“In Another Country”, “Nobody's Daughter Haewon” and veteran actor (“Right Now, Wrong Then”, “Grass”), who won the Best Actor award for this film at the 71st Locarno Festival. The film will next screen at the Toronto Film Festival, with a wider domestic and international release expected later this year or early next year.

About the author

Rhythm Zaveri

Hello, my name is Rhythm Zaveri. For as long as I can remember, I've been watching movies, but my introduction to Asian cinema was old rental VHS copies of Bruce Lee films and some Shaw Bros. martial arts extravaganzas. But my interest in the cinema of the region really deepened when I was at university and got access to a massive range of VHS and DVDs of classic Japanese and Chinese titles in the library, and there has been no turning back since.

An avid collector of physical media, I would say Korean cinema really is my first choice, but I'll watch anything that is south-east Asian. I started contributing to Asian Movie Pulse in 2018 to share my love for Asian cinema in the form of my writings.

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