The Day He Arrives (2011)
Storyline
Sang-Joon is a professor in the film department at a provincial university. He goes to Seoul to meet his senior, Young-Ho, who works as a film critic. Sang-Joon stays in a northern village in Seoul for 3 days.
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90
The Day He Arrives has real force and its experimentation is in the service of a moving story about a man who, as he says at the start, has nowhere to go. And so he returns to a bar, a woman and situations that are always the same and yet always different - snow falls during one kiss but not another - playing a director whose life resembles a movie he keeps remaking.
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Salon
But at his best - and his new movie, The Day He Arrives, is among his very best - Hong offers a strange mixture of magic, mystery, rueful melodrama and dry comedy that's like absolutely nothing else.
88
Slant Magazine
The geometry of human relationships is the main theme of Hong Sang-soo's The Day He Arrives.
88
The movie finds the right tone to present its bittersweet wisdom. It's relaxed. It's content to observe and listen.
83
Maintains a funny and sad focus on its single petulant subject.
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