With his film “In Front of Your Face,” about an actress’s homecoming, the director Hong Sangsoo glories in the power of the cinema.
Even the greatest directors sometimes rely on cliché to dispense information swiftly, and it’s all the more tempting for filmmakers whose work is spare and condensed, such as the South Korean director. In a classic-era Hollywood movie, when characters discreetly cough, it’s a sure bet that they’re dying of tuberculosis; in his new film “In Front of Your Face,” Hong makes use of this trope in the very first scene.
Sangok’s most important reunion is with the cinema itself. She has scheduled a lunch meeting with a younger movie director named Song Jaewon , who wants to direct a movie that would be her return to the screen. Sangok’s trip to meet Jaewon takes her near the house where she and her sister grew up, summoning a mighty rush of memories that impose themselves with a seemingly physical power.
With “In Front of Your Face,” Hong glories in the work itself—in the power of the cinema. Within the spare intimacy of his confrontational, conversational drama, he offers several remarkable twists of cinematic form in order to access the vast inner dimensions of Sangok’s local adventures and encounters, including moments that waver ambiguously between fantasy and reality. He uses the simplest of subjective devices, internal monologue, to sharp effect.
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