The secret relationship between a student and a teacher, will their love last?
The casual plotting leaves loose ends, but Hong's rhyming rhythms take up some of the slack.
The film's eccentricities may not be for every palate, but it stays with you and grows on you.
The film is teasing, poignant, enigmatic.
The result is sincere, whimsical and pretty dreary.
Haewon emerges as a complex character in whose foolishly open company we would happily spend more time, her understated manner speaking volumes, her gestures gently telling their own story.
Hopefully this will be the film to make Hong Sang-soo make him a regular fixture in UK cinemas.
Sangsoo forces too much blunt persuasion with his camera for this film to be a true modern showpiece of Asian cinema.
General release. Check local listings for show times.
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