2002 · drama · romance · comedy
Turning Gate
Directed by Hong Sang-soo1h 56m2002
After being rejected for a film role, a stage actor leaves Seoul to visit a friend and, in his travels, winds up getting involved with two women.
Our read: Turning Gate (2002) reads as a neutral, measured, grounded drama · romance · comedy entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Neutral, measured, gentle drama / romance, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- measured
- intimate
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