event In Another Country

South Korean filmmaker Hong Sang-soo tends to make the same movie over and over: a multi-part story in which heavily inebriated males—usually academics or filmmakers—awkwardly woo one or more bewildered females. So it came as a seismic shock when Hong announced that he’d cast Isabelle Huppert as the lead in his latest effort, In Another Country. When first introduced, Huppert plays a celebrated French director vacationing in a South Korean beach town at the behest of a male colleague, who immediately puts the moves on her, in spite of his wife’s constant presence. After a while, however, the story re-sets, casting Huppert as a mogul’s wife who arrives at the same beach town to resume her affair with a completely different Korean filmmaker. Then it re-sets again, with Huppert now recently divorced and combing the beach town in search of answers to what went wrong.

South Korean filmmaker Hong Sang-soo tends to make the same movie over and over: a multi-part story in which heavily inebriated males—usually academics or filmmakers—awkwardly woo one or more bewildered females. So it came as a seismic shock when Hong announced that he’d cast Isabelle Huppert as the lead in his latest effort, In Another Country. When first introduced, Huppert plays a celebrated French director vacationing in a South Korean beach town at the behest of a male colleague, who immediately puts the moves on her, in spite of his wife’s constant presence. After a while, however, the story re-sets, casting Huppert as a mogul’s wife who arrives at the same beach town to resume her affair with a completely different Korean filmmaker. Then it re-sets again, with Huppert now recently divorced and combing the beach town in search of answers to what went wrong.

South Korean filmmaker Hong Sang-soo tends to make the same movie over and over: a multi-part story in which heavily inebriated males—usually academics or filmmakers—awkwardly woo one or more bewildered females. So it came as a seismic shock when Hong announced that he’d cast Isabelle Huppert as the lead in his latest effort, In Another Country. When first introduced, Huppert plays a celebrated French director vacationing in a South Korean beach town at the behest of a male colleague, who immediately puts the moves on her, in spite of his wife’s constant presence. After a while, however, the story re-sets, casting Huppert as a mogul’s wife who arrives at the same beach town to resume her affair with a completely different Korean filmmaker. Then it re-sets again, with Huppert now recently divorced and combing the beach town in search of answers to what went wrong.