For his first full-length movie, Hong Sang-soo borrows a title from John Cheever and asks four screenwriters to each develop a character. He then constructs the network of their relationships, inventing most of the dialogue in the course of the filming. The film demonstrates a predilection for structure and process, resem- bling the following in the details and diverging from it in the outcomes: its complex thread is that of a melodrama, whose moods lead towards an astonishingly tragic unravelling, in view of things to come. (AT)
Technical sheet
PARALLEL SCREEN / HONG SANG-SOO RETROSPECTIVE
South Korea, 1996, Colour, 35 mm, 116′
Original version : korean.
Subtitles : french.
Script : Hong Sang-soo.
Photography : Dong-kwan CHO.
Editing : Gok-ji Park.
Production : Wooseok Lee (Dong-A Export Co).
Distribution : Yann Kacou (ASC Distribution).
Casting : Eui-sung Kim, Jin-seong Park, Eun-sook Jo.