‘A Tale of Cinema - Hong Sangsoo’

Told in two parts, A Tale of Cinema begins in Seoul, where Sang-weon reunites with an old flame, leading to a night of eating, drinking, and a suicide pact. The second part begins with former film student Tong-Su exiting a cinema after watching a film made by a successful but now seriously ill former classmate. Yeong-Shil, the film’s female protagonist, was there in the same cinema watching the film. When she leaves, Tong-Su follows her and casually strikes up a conversation…

A Tale of Cinema made it to 8th place in Cahiers du Cinéma’s Top 10 Films of 2005.

The first screening of A Tale of Cinema will be introduced by Dennis Lim, film curator, author of the 2022 Fireflies publication A Tale of Cinema, which explores the oeuvre of South Korean auteur Hong Sangsoo through his 2005 eponymous film. Dennis Lim is currently the Artistic Director of the New York Film Festival and was Director of Programming at Film at Lincoln Center in New York from 2013 to 2022. His previous book David Lynch: The Man From Another Place (2015) has been translated into three languages.

For two weeks, Bozar offers an extensive programme consisting of nine films featuring some of Hong Sangsoo's earliest works and a selection of the films he made in his most recent years. Hong Sangsoo first gained attention in 1996 with The Day a Pig Fell into the Well. Over the years, he has earned numerous international awards. Besides being a professor of screenwriting and directing in Seoul, he remains one of the most inventive and prolific filmmakers in contemporary cinema.