Expectedly Unexpected: Repetition and Understatement in the Films of Hong Sang-soo

Hong Sang-soo's body of work is characterised by repeated occurrences, shifting points of view and defamiliarised social conventions – and his films are touted as 'radically banal'. Anthony Carew casts a critical eye over the South Korean director's seventeen titles, and teases out the subjects and stylistic decisions that consistently pervade each.

Additional keywords: Right Now, Wrong Then, Hill of Freedom, Our Sunhi, Nobody's Daughter Haewon, In Another Country, The Day He Arrives, Oki's Movie, Hahaha, Like You Know It All, Night and Day, Woman on the Beach, Tale of Cinema, Woman Is the Future of Man, On the Occasion of Remembering the Turning Gate, Virgin Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, The Power of Kangwon Province, The Day a Pig Fell into the Well.