The Day After

Thursday, February 08, 2018 @ 7:00 PM
Globe Cinema - 617 8 Avenue SW, Calgary, AB
$12 General | $10 Members/Seniors/Students | $40 5-Pack Punch Pass | $99 Season Pass

THE DAY AFTER | Dir. Sang-soo Hong | 2017 | 92 min
Presented in Korean with English subtitles.

HONG SANG-SOO’S ‘THE DAY AFTER’ IS A BEGUILINGLY SLIGHT COMEDY ABOUT DANGERS OF COMBINING BUSINESS AND PLEASURE. WELCOME BACK TO THE DRUNKEN WORLD OF HONG SANG-SOO, WHERE "MORE OF THE SAME" IS ACTUALLY A GOOD THING.

Hong Sang-soo’s third film of 2017 (and his fourth in the last eight months), The Day After finds the singular Korean auteur deviating from his signature formula in some pretty seismic ways. Case in point: The selfish, horny, soju-guzzling male character at the center of this one is an emotionally confused book publisher, and not an emotionally confused movie director. Sorry, I should’ve warned you to sit down before you read that. Really though, the most striking difference between this film and the last few efforts from cinema’s drunkest one-man genre, is that The Day After is so black-and-white.

Hong’s first monochrome movie since releasing the exquisite The Day He Arrives in 2011, The Day After might seem poised to pick up where that film left off, but anyone who follows Hong’s career closely enough to care should know better than to expect a sequel. On the contrary, his beguiling but relatively insubstantial new feature — a strange choice for a Competition slot at Cannes considering the strength of his recent output — is the most straightforward and self-contained thing that he’s made in quite a while. READ MORE, via IndieWire.

Awards
Buil Film Awards 2017 - Nominated (Buil Film Award, Best Film | Sang-soo Hong, Best Director | Sang-soo Hong, Best Actor | Hae-hyo Kwon)
Cannes Film Festival 2017 - Nominated (Palme d'Or, Sang-soo Hong)
International Cinephile Society Awards 2017 - Won (ICS Cannes Award, Best Actress | Min-hee Kim)
Lisbon & Estoril Film Festival 2017 - Nominated (Jaeger - LeCoultre Best Film Award, Best Film | Sang-soo Hong)
Munich Film Festival 2017 - Nominated (ARRI/OSRAM Award, Best International Film | Sang-soo Hong)
San Sebastián International Film Festival 2017 - Nominated (Zabaltegi Section, Zabaltegi-Tabakalera Prize | Sang-soo Hong)

The Day After is the fourth title in our CONTEMPORARY WORLD CINEMA series.

CONTEMPORARY WORLD CINEMA SERIES

The CONTEMPORARY WORLD CINEMA series showcases the best films from around the world made by rising masters and established auteurs. The series offers a rare chance to view critically acclaimed works by directors who are pushing the boundaries of cinema. Over the last three seasons, this series has screened works by directors from Argentina, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Iran, Japan, Mexico, Norway, Philippines, Poland, Romania, South Korea, Taiwan, UK and USA. This season, the series features critical works hailing from Thailand in November 2017 and from Korea, France, and Argentina in early 2018.

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