Turning the Lens: Looking and Reliving in Hong Sang-soo's 'Claire's Camera'

Whether it be taken as a frivolous film in which cinephiles idle in one of the screen's beloved cities, or as an extratextually rich work that lets its creator reflect, by proxy, on some real-world foibles, Claire's Camera reveals much about writer/director Hong Sang-soo and the transformative powers of memory and the memorialised image, writes Dave Crewe.

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Asian cinema, South Korea, Kim Min-hee, Isabelle Huppert, autobiography, relationship, photography, self-reflection.