Right Now, Wrong Then (Rétrospective Hong Sangsoo)

Right Now, Wrong Then 

Jigeumeun matgo geuttaeneun teullida Corée du Sud 2015 | Hong Sangsoo | vostEN | 121’ | digital | Cast : Jung Jae-young, Kim Min-hee

► Golden Leopard and Best Actor, Locarno 2015

While on a visit to another town, a married film director falls for a young painter not once but two times, as Hong tells the same story twice with small but very telling variations.

« Taken as a single, 120-minute work, the small differences in the dialogue and attitudes of parts one and two reveal nothing less than the humanity, inner life and subconscious decision-making processes of the characters, turning the whole into one of Hong’s strongest features to date. » (Hollywood Reporter)

« Either hour alone would be a wry, incisive, quietly painful drama, set at the intersection of art and life, about foregrounded action and the weight of personal history. Together, the two parts make a radical fiction about the crucial role of imagination in lived experience. Hong’s narrative gamesmanship reveals agonized regret. » (The New Yorker)