Hill of Freedom

Name: Hill of Freedom
Genre: Drama
Released: June 12, 2020
Duration: 66 min
Rating: 73
Cast: Eui-sung Kim, Jeong Eun-Chae, Ju-bong Gi, Min-woo Lee, Ryo Kase

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Bitters End | Release Date (Streaming): June 12, 2020 | Not Rated

Starring: Eui-sung Kim, Jeong Eun-Chae, Ju-bong Gi, Min-woo Lee, Ryo Kase, So-ri Moon, Yeo-Jong Yun, Young-hwa Seo

Summary: Kwon (Seo Young-hwa) returns to Seoul from a restorative stay in the mountains. She is given a packet of letters left by Mori (Ryo Kase, Like Someone In Love), who has come back from Japan to propose to her. As she walks down a flight of stairs, Kwon drops and scatters the letters, all of which are undated. When she reads them, she has toKwon (Seo Young-hwa) returns to Seoul from a restorative stay in the mountains. She is given a packet of letters left by Mori (Ryo Kase, Like Someone In Love), who has come back from Japan to propose to her. As she walks down a flight of stairs, Kwon drops and scatters the letters, all of which are undated. When she reads them, she has to make sense of the chronology… and so must we. … Expand

Director: Sang-soo Hong

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 66 min

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Richard Brody

Jun 3, 2020

Hong’s deft artistry is an attempt to get past the habits of issue-oriented, advocacy-besotted political cinema to work out just what a political cinema would be. And his answer is: first of all, it’s cinema. In this regard, he connects with Mankiewicz, Resnais, and other great filmmakers for whom politics is an important, interwoven part of life—and of art. Read full review

Ignatiy Vishnevetsky

Jun 10, 2020

It may not be the heftiest or most penetrating entry in the Hong oeuvre, but it’s one of the funniest and probably the most accessible. Read full review

Glenn Kenny

Jun 11, 2020

The ingenuity of the movie’s structure is stimulating and delightful, but there’s one aspect of “Hill” that some may find a trifle exasperating: Even more than any of the sad-sack men who populate the director’s other movies, Mori is kind of a stiff. Read full review

The Playlist Jessica Kiang

Jun 11, 2020

It may amount to less than a hill of beans, but Hill of Freedom is an amiable way to spend 66 minutes learning how even cultures that seem closely related to Western eyes, like those of Japan and Korea, can clash. And also how cultures like these, that seem so far from our own, can be trumped, by love, longing, friendship, sex and drunkenness, the same universal experiences we all share. Read full review

Kenji Fujishima

Jun 11, 2020

It isn’t without its pleasures and insights, but it’s ultimately little more than an excuse for Hong to try out a new stylistic color in his auteurist palette. Read full review

Dan Fainaru

Jun 11, 2020

His fans will probably adore it, think it cute and original, the rest of the audience will sigh again in resignation and wonder whether this game of cinema riddles does have anything significant to say behind its smiling, insouciant wrapping. Read full review

Clarence Tsui

Jun 11, 2020

Clocking in at just over an hour, Hill of Freedom is Hong Sang-soo's shortest feature film to date. And it's his most lightweight, as well, with the Korean auteur merely reshuffling his tried-and-trusted play on non-linear structure, camera movements and characterizations without offering anything decidedly new Read full review

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Brent_Marchant

Jun 18, 2020

While dressed up as a commentary on East Asian political and social relations, this allegorical lightweight romance employs a deliberately shuffled chronology to make its points, a clever approach that nevertheless feels contrived and derivative. This 2014 South Korean production, which isWhile dressed up as a commentary on East Asian political and social relations, this allegorical lightweight romance employs a deliberately shuffled chronology to make its points, a clever approach that nevertheless feels contrived and derivative. This 2014 South Korean production, which is just now going into North American release via online streaming, at times feels underdeveloped yet also simultaneously needlessly padded. At a scant 67 minutes in length, director Sang-soo Hong's offering feels more like a project still in development than a finished work, one that may have had potential if allowed to evolve further but that ultimately comes up short.… Expand

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