In Another Country
Kino Lorber | Release Date: November 9, 2012 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
69
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 13 Critic Reviews
Positive:
10
Mixed:
3
Negative:
0

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
91
IndieWireEric KohnNov 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
88
Slant MagazineNov 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
80
VarietyMaggie LeeApr 15, 2013
Beguilingly simple, relaxed in its mastery and enhanced by Isabelle Huppert’s impeccable poise. Read full review
80
NPRSam StanderNov 8, 2012
Hong's fast-and-loose narrative silliness does require a certain amount of patience from the viewer. Plot details conflict, and assumptions about a character's role and relationships will probably be upended - but all to fascinating or greatly comic effect. Read full review
75
San Francisco ChronicleWalter AddiegoJan 25, 2013
If you stare at it too hard, In Another Country, an exercise in drollery from South Korea's Hong Sang-soo, simply evaporates. But if you take the film as the bauble it is, you'll be entertained by its lighthearted wit, social observations and resolute sidestepping of profundity. Read full review
75
New York PostFarran Smith NehmeNov 8, 2012
The conceit is slight, but Hong's playful structure conceals sharp observations about fantasies, communication, and how foreigners and natives interact. Read full review
70
The New York TimesA.O. ScottNov 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
70
Village VoiceNick PinkertonNov 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
70
The Hollywood ReporterNeil YoungNov 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
67
The PlaylistKevin JagernauthApr 15, 2013
The latest from the prolific helmer is not so much slight as is it light, charming and funny by equal turns, with a pretty terrific performance by Huppert who seems to be having a lot of fun with the part(s). Read full review
60
Time OutJoshua RothkopfNov 6, 2012
No exchanges flare into true weirdness; rather, the mood is lingering and tentative. Undoubtedly, this is the movie's intent, but it's a fairly banal comment on foreign estrangement (or love) that could have used some roughing up. Read full review
60
The GuardianPeter BradshawNov 6, 2012
In Another Country looks very much like something written on a napkin and shot in the one afternoon that Huppert could come to South Korea. Slight, diverting, forgettable. Read full review
58
The A.V. ClubMike D AngeloNov 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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