A Traveler's Needs

Name: A Traveler's Needs
Genre: Drama
Released: November 22, 2024
Duration: 90 min
Rating: 70
Cast: Hae-hyo Kwon, Hye-young Lee, Isabelle Huppert, Sung-guk Ha, Yunhee Cho

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Finecut | Release Date: November 22, 2024 | Not Rated

Starring: Hae-hyo Kwon, Hye-young Lee, Isabelle Huppert, Sung-guk Ha, Yunhee Cho

Summary: Iris (Isabelle Huppert), a woman who finds herself adrift in Seoul and without any means to make ends meet, turns to teaching French via a très peculiar method. Through a series of encounters, as we grow to know more about Iris and her situation, the mysteries of her circumstances only deepen.

Director: Sang-soo Hong

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 90 min

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IndieWire David Opie

Nov 21, 2024

As is so often the case for Hong, his latest is a gentle, hypnotically watchable film that breezes by as Iris does herself, dallying around Seoul in a loose summer dress and her striking bright-green cardigan. Read full review

Jonathan Romney

Feb 24, 2024

The newness is subtle and gently perplexing, but very satisfying indeed. Read full review

The Guardian Peter Bradshaw

Oct 10, 2024

Hong makes all of this look as easy and fluent as breathing. Read full review

The Film Stage Rory O'Connor

Feb 24, 2024

A Traveller’s Needs is just the tonic: a film that passes through you like a breath of fresh air. Read full review

Ben Kenigsberg

Nov 21, 2024

This is his third overall feature with Huppert, who adds drollery and an air of mystery. And there is just enough intrigue this time — one motif involves the difficulty of translating a work by Yoon Dong-ju, a Korean poet who died in 1945 after being imprisoned in Japan — to suggest hidden depths. Read full review

Chuck Bowen

Sep 23, 2024

Hong Sang-soo’s films have tricky narrative juxtapositions and symbols that often render potentially mundane moments transcendent. Read full review

Richard Whittaker

Jan 2, 2025

Even compared to his last film, the bifurcated dual character studies of In Our Day, A Traveler’s Needs feels less like a completed movie and more like an acting exercise. Read full review

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