Grass

Name: Grass
Genre: Drama
Released: April 19, 2019
Duration: 66 min
Rating: 77
Cast: Jae-hong Ahn, Jin-yeong Jeong, Joobong Kee, Min-hee Kim, Sae-byeok Kim

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Cinema Guild | Release Date: April 19, 2019 | Not Rated

Starring: Jae-hong Ahn, Jin-yeong Jeong, Joobong Kee, Min-hee Kim, Sae-byeok Kim

Summary: In the corner of a small cafeé, Areum (Kim Minhee) sits typing on her laptop. At the tables around her, other customers enact the various dramas of their lives. A young couple charge each other with serious crimes, an old man tries to rekindle a flame with a younger woman, a narcissistic filmmaker works to put together his next project—allIn the corner of a small cafeé, Areum (Kim Minhee) sits typing on her laptop. At the tables around her, other customers enact the various dramas of their lives. A young couple charge each other with serious crimes, an old man tries to rekindle a flame with a younger woman, a narcissistic filmmaker works to put together his next project—all while Areum types. Is she merely writing what she hears? Or is she hearing what’s been written? As the dramas inside the café unfold, the plants outside grow taller. [Cinema Guild]… Expand

Director: Sang-soo Hong

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 66 min

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The Film Stage Rory O'Connor

Are the grand and absurd moments of our lives perhaps more closely acquainted with one another then we’d like to admit? Grass seems to think so, and it delivers that assumption with a welcome–indeed, almost humane–dose of humor. Read full review

Sarah Ward

Grass demonstrates a fresh type of playfulness from the prolific filmmaker. It’s a movie filled with his usual intimacy, but it’s also one that’s purposefully more concerned with the bigger picture than the individual details. Read full review

Lawrence Garcia

Apr 15, 2019

What’s most fascinating about Grass is the way Hong modulates the film’s atmosphere, gradually transforming its banal beginnings into something genuinely haunting and unresolved. Read full review

Glenn Kenny

Apr 18, 2019

When the writer opts to just let things be, the movie is at its most content. Read full review

The Playlist Bradley Warren

For all the artists that populate Hong’s cinematic universe, the director has yet to foreground the creative psyche in as thought-provoking of a manner as he does in Grass. Read full review

Deborah Young

Kim’s Areum is edgy, multi-layered and far from docile. Read full review

IndieWire David Ehrlich

Much less consistently enjoyable than many Hong films twice its length, Grass compensates for its dramatic slackness and deviant sobriety by honing in on the ideas that its director’s work often skirts around. Read full review

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JLuis_001

Jul 22, 2022

The irony of Hong Sang-soo's films is that they may seem inconsequential and puerile, but they are nonetheless effective and hypnotic, almost more often than not, because his approach never attempts to show a plot or narrative complexity that auteur films often try to evoke with stories thatThe irony of Hong Sang-soo's films is that they may seem inconsequential and puerile, but they are nonetheless effective and hypnotic, almost more often than not, because his approach never attempts to show a plot or narrative complexity that auteur films often try to evoke with stories that lack that kind of depth altogether.

Grass doesn't offer much variation on what the director has always done. His characters are middle-aged people who express their problems in sequences that don't seem to give them any development or growth over the duration of the narrative but nevertheless you are attentive to what they are voicing.

Sang-soo's stories are quite common, and most of them feel quite natural. You don't need to make a connection with his characters or feel identified by their situations for the stories to work, or at least that's almost always been the case when I watch this director's films.

That's his magic. It can look so simple and yet it's more substantial than a lot of other things that wallow in their grandiloquence and pretentiousness.… Expand

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