Critics Of "On the Beach at Night Alone (Bamui haebyun-eoseo honja) [Sub: Eng]"
Variety
February 16, 2017
Unfussy in form, open in expression and gentle in reach as its maker revisits such recurring preoccupations as loneliness, regret and the value of love in life and art.
The new film by the great Korean director has a plot with many autobiographical tints and is perhaps the most frank, direct and emotional of his entire career. [Full review in Spanish]
It'll likely take a diehard Hong fan to truly admire this dreamily scripted fare, lacking as it does the writer-director's usually rigorous musing on fate and perception.
The striking similarities between this film - about an actress who has an affair with a married film director - and the intense local speculation surrounding Hong's own private life distinguishes it from the renowned auteur's other work.
It's a self-aware film in many ways, and perhaps a self-deprecating one for a director who's never shied away from putting his own lesser angels on screen.
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