We are joined by Asian Film Archive programmer Alexander Lee for our second installment in our Hong Sang-soo series! Alex talks to the guys about pairing Hong Sang-soo deep cuts with Eric Rohmer classics, and specifically the pairing of Night and Day with Love in the Afternoon. Eli chats about the narrative motifs that are on display in this film, Wilson tries to unlock the secret of Hong’s use of zooms, and Ben contends with the slimy protagonist of this film.
Singaporean listeners to Deep Cut you can catch Night and Day on July 13th at the Oldham Theatre. Buy tickets here!
Links:
Hong Sang-soo Notarized: Night and Day
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Timestamps:
00:00:00 Intro
00:01:17 Alex introduces Twin Tales
00:06:45 Film Context
00:10:21 General Reactions
00:20:58 Hong’s big stylistic choices
00:23:22 Narrative Motifs
00:28:30 Yoo-Jung
00:31:55 Sung-nam
00:33:14 Odd patterns
00:37:22 Night and Day vs. Love in the Afternoon
00:40:41 Tech and sex of the 00s
00:42:42 The male mess of Hong
00:45:52 Dream sequences
00:50:54 The look of the film
00:56:18 Being married?
00:59:16 Hong notarized
01:00:40 Opening of the film and Hill of Freedom
01:02:43 Music
01:04:30 More on zooms
01:05:35 Paris
01:07:52 Other small odd things
01:09:24 Preview of Twin Tales
01:13:11 Outro