2015 · drama · romance · comedy
Right Now, Wrong Then
Directed by Hong Sang-soo2h 1m2015
By mistake, film director Ham Chunsu arrives in Suwon a day early. With time to kill before his lecture the next day, Chunsu stops by a restored, old palace and meets an artist named Yoon Heejung. Together, they go to Heejung's workshop to look at her paintings, have Sushi with Soju for dinner, and get close. Later, they go to another café and have more drinks with Heejung's acquaintances. When asked if he is married, Chunsu is forced to reveal the fact that he is, and Heejung gets deeply disappointed...
Our read: Right Now, Wrong Then (2015) reads as a neutral, slow-burn, inventive drama · romance · comedy entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Neutral, slow-burn, gentle drama / romance, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- slow-burn
- gentle
- signature
- intimate
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