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THE DAY HE ARRIVES (2011)
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Director Hong Sangsoo Year 2011 Status Completed Genre drama Starring Yu Junsang, Kim Sangjoong, Song Sunmi Running Time 79 min. Country of Production Korea Festival & Awards 2011 Cannes Film Festival - Un Certain Regard
2011 Karlovy Vary International Film Festival - Another View
2011 SITGES - International Fantastic Film Festival of Catalonia
2011 Stockholm International Film Festival
2012 Hong Kong International Film Festival - AuteursSynopsis Seongjun heads to Seoul to meet a close friend who lives in the Bukchon area. When the friend doesn’t answer his calls, Seongjun wanders around Bukchon and runs into an actress he used to know. The two talk for a while, but soon part. He makes his way down to Insadong and drinks makgeolli (rice wine) by himself. Some film students at another table ask him to join them--Seongjun used to be a film director. He soon gets drunk and heads for his ex-girlfriend’s house.
Whether it’s the next day or some other day, but Seongjun is still wandering around Bukchon. He runs into the actress again. They talk and soon part. He eventually meets his friend and they head to a bar called Novel with a female professor his friend knows. The owner of the bar has a striking resemblance to Seongjun’s ex-girlfriend. He plays the piano for her.
Whether it’s the next day or some other day, Seongjun goes to the Jeongdok Public Library with his friend and mentions that it was the first place he chased after a woman. Later, they have drinks with a former actor who had been doing business in Vietnam. The same female professor joins them and the four go to the bar called Novel. Seongjun gets drunk and ends up kissing the owner of the pub…
Seongjun may have spent a few days in Seoul with his friend, or it may still be his first day there. He may have learned something from the encounter with his ex-girlfriend, or may have to meet the woman that resembles her again, for the first time. As life presents itself in no more than today’s worth of time, Seongjun also has no other choice than to face his “today”.
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