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Hong Sangsoo’s recent films, such as The Woman Who Ran (also playing on May 19), often feature women protagonists and treat the complexities of their lives and friendships with subtlety and warmth. By contrast, his earlier films are frequently comedies of misunderstanding centered on clueless young men who are hopelessly hapless at understanding women at all. Such is the case in 2004’s Woman Is the Future of Man. In it, two longtime friends, a filmmaker and a teacher, get drunk and decide to track down the woman they both once pursued romantically.
As Richard Brody wrote in The New Yorker, “What promises to be a nostalgia trip quickly turns into an emotional free fall. Hong delineates character with the lightest of strokes. [ . . . ] There are no shining heroes here, but the quietly frantic striving for tenderness comes off as a noble, doomed quest.”
(Dir.: Hong Sangsoo, Korea, 2004, 88 min., DCP, Korean with English subtitles)
Film admission policy: Films are shown in the 300-seat Meyer Auditorium. Pre-registration (up to four tickets per person per film) is encouraged but not required. Seating is available on a first come, first served basis for patrons without tickets.
Image credit: Woman is the Future of Man courtesy of the American Genre Film Archive
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