Book chon bang hyang 2011

Manohla Dargis, New York Times: The movie becomes an exploration, both playful and rueful, of desire, narrative and the idea beautifully expressed by Faulkner in "Absalom, Absalom!" that "maybe nothing ever happens once and is finished." Read more

Noel Murray, AV Club: Even while The Day He Arrives doesn't come to much-at least not in comparison to some of Hong's other films, such as 2006's brilliant Woman On The Beach-it's still time well spent. Read more

J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader: The listless execution may remind you less of 8 1/2 than of Woody Allen's whiny Stardust Memories. Read more

Maggie Lee, Hollywood Reporter: Serves as an amusing itinerary of dining, drinking and sexual dalliance that beguilingly plays with narrative time. Read more

Richard Brody, New Yorker: Hong abstracts the tense network of fragile relationships to crisp, briskly sketched lines that he adorns with bubbly and self-deprecating humor and graceful wonders... Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: Sang-soo Hong has no profound point to pound home. His story doesn't need an ending. He accepts all the characters just as they are. Read more

Andrew O'Hehir, Salon.com: Hong offers a strange mixture of magic, mystery, rueful melodrama and dry comedy that's like absolutely nothing else. Read more

Keith Uhlich, Time Out: A 25-words-or-less pitch for The Day He Arrives-shot in luminous black-and-white-might go something like: "Hong Sang-soo does Groundhog Day." Read more

Nick Pinkerton, Village Voice: Hong is wonderful with atmospheric effects, using whirling snowfalls to place his characters' inchoate longing in relief. Read more