In Another Country

Name: In Another Country
Genre: Drama
Released: November 9, 2012
Duration: 89 min
Rating: 69

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Kino Lorber | Release Date: November 9, 2012 | Not Rated

Summary: A young film student and her mother run away to the seaside town of Mohang to escape their mounting debt. The young woman begins writing a script for a short film in order to calm her nerves. Three women named Anne appear, and each woman consecutively visits the seaside town of Mohang. The first Anne is a successful film director. TheA young film student and her mother run away to the seaside town of Mohang to escape their mounting debt. The young woman begins writing a script for a short film in order to calm her nerves. Three women named Anne appear, and each woman consecutively visits the seaside town of Mohang. The first Anne is a successful film director. The second Anne is a married woman secretly in an affair with a Korean man. The third Anne is a divorcee whose husband left her for a Korean woman. A young woman tends to the small hotel by the Mohang foreshore owned by her parents. A certain lifeguard can always be seen wandering up and down the beach that lies nearby. Each Anne stays at this small hotel, receives some assistance from the owner’s daughter, and ventures onto the beach where they meet the lifeguard. (Kino Lorber)… Expand

Director: Sang-soo Hong

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 89 min

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IndieWire Eric Kohn

Nov 8, 2012

In Another Country is a paragon of any given Hong movie's intrinsic charms, and yet it also manages to break from the pattern by including an English-speaking character as one of its leads. Read full review

Nov 6, 2012

Hong Sang-soo hits the beach once again in his latest project, another austerely amusing study of hopeless neurotics making a mockery of leisure. Read full review

Maggie Lee

Apr 15, 2013

Beguilingly simple, relaxed in its mastery and enhanced by Isabelle Huppert’s impeccable poise. Read full review

Neil Young

Nov 6, 2012

Two arthouse "worlds" collide with amusing and intriguing -- if hardly earth-shattering -- results in cult Korean writer-director Hong Sangsoo's In Another Country. Read full review

A.O. Scott

Nov 8, 2012

What the point here might be is a bit more elusive. It may be simply to allow Ms. Huppert, one of the most adventurous actresses in movies, the opportunity to try something new. And that might be enough. Read full review

Nick Pinkerton

Nov 7, 2012

The cumulative impression is of figures being lightly traced in the sand only to be inevitably washed away, intentionally ephemeral and quite charming for it. Read full review

Mike D Angelo

Nov 6, 2012

It almost seems as if Hong is poking fun at his own single-minded oeuvre, creating a fractal representation of how his other films obliquely interrelate. Read full review

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CharlieBrown8

Jul 24, 2013

This is quite a charming low budget movie, with irritatingly funny dialogues and characters that let's you overlook the unimaginative photography. Acting and script are great, even if the stories don't really lead anywhere, they leave you with a feeling lighthearted enjoyment.

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lasttimeisaw

Sep 29, 2014

Unwittingly it is my very first film from the universally acclaimed South Korean auteur Sang-soo Hong, by virtue of Isabelle Huppert. But out of my heart, the film is frustratingly bland and ineptly flippant.

All the setting is exclusively in a remote beach and a family hotel near seaUnwittingly it is my very first film from the universally acclaimed South Korean auteur Sang-soo Hong, by virtue of Isabelle Huppert. But out of my heart, the film is frustratingly bland and ineptly flippant.

All the setting is exclusively in a remote beach and a family hotel near sea side. After an informal conversation between a pair of mother and daughter, Park Soo (Yoon) and Wonju (Jeong), about their familial dispute. Then Wonju starts to write three short stories for her script, each centres a French woman named Anne (Huppert), respectively as a female director, an adulteress and a divorcée (conveniently dressed in blue, red and green), and Wonju becomes the hotelier.

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JLuis_001

Sep 10, 2022

Smooth, practical and in some instances also insubstantial. While that might sound indifferent to what this story tells, the truth is that it's completely in sync with what we've come to know from a director like Hong Sang-soo.

No tonal variation, but it's the classic battle that theSmooth, practical and in some instances also insubstantial. While that might sound indifferent to what this story tells, the truth is that it's completely in sync with what we've come to know from a director like Hong Sang-soo.

No tonal variation, but it's the classic battle that the arthouse genre often fights between what passes for entertainment and what seems intriguingly pretentious and we're either not getting it or perhaps we just think we do and thus its importance rests solely on us.… Expand

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