Arriving close on the heels of Hong Sang-soo’s two 2010 films, Hahaha and Oki’s Movie, The Day He Arrives continues the director’s recent trend of varying his style and trimming his running times, even as he delivers yet another story about a deluded, self-destructive filmmaker caught in a love triangle. The big change with The Day He Arrives is that the film is in black and white, which gives it a look akin to a ’60s Euro-drama, or one of Woody Allen’s black-and-white comedies. And Hong’s approach to The Day He Arrives suits that look. Yu Jun-sang stars as a director who’s “taking a break” from movies while he teaches at a small college. When he shows up in Seoul to spend time with his sad-sack friend Kim Sang-joong, Yu ends up eating at the same restaurant over and over, and drinking at the same bar, with the same group of people. Even when he impulsively pursues a sexual relationship with the bar’s owner, it’s only because she looks exactly like his ex-girlfriend. The Day He Arrives is a talky movie, full of long, boozy scenes and cosmic coincidences—and in that it echoes Allen, as well as Luis Buñuel, Jean-Luc Godard, Michelangelo Antonioni, and the best of British kitchen-sink drama.