Right Now, Wrong Then

Name: Right Now, Wrong Then
Genre: Drama
Released: June 24, 2016
Duration: 121 min
Rating: 81

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Grasshopper Film | Release Date: June 24, 2016 | Not Rated

Summary: Quite by accident, a film director arrives in town a day early. With time to kill before his lecture the next day, he stops by a restored, old palace and meets a fledgling artist. She’s never seen any of his films, but knows he’s famous. They talk. And together, they go to her workshop to look at her paintings, have Sushi and Soju. MoreQuite by accident, a film director arrives in town a day early. With time to kill before his lecture the next day, he stops by a restored, old palace and meets a fledgling artist. She’s never seen any of his films, but knows he’s famous. They talk. And together, they go to her workshop to look at her paintings, have Sushi and Soju. More conversation follows, and drinks, and then an awkward get-together with friends where all sorts of secrets are revealed. All the while, they may or may not be falling for each other. Then, quite unexpectedly, we begin again, but now things appear somewhat different. [Grasshopper Film]… Expand

Director: Sang-soo Hong

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 121 min

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Mike D'Angelo

Jun 22, 2016

Right Now, Wrong Then — which won the top prize at 2015’s Locarno Film Festival, and is heroically being released by brand-new distributor Grasshopper Film — is not only his finest work to date but also the very best film released in 2016 so far. Read full review

Richard Brody

Mar 3, 2016

Either hour alone would be a wry, incisive, quietly painful drama, set at the intersection of art and life, about foregrounded action and the weight of personal history. Together, the two parts make a radical fiction about the crucial role of imagination in lived experience. Hong’s narrative gamesmanship reveals agonized regret. Read full review

Justin Chang

Jun 23, 2016

No filmmaker better understands the revelatory properties of small talk and soju, and few could make the art of repetition seem so rife with possibilities. Read full review

The Telegraph Robbie Collin

Mar 3, 2016

No director working today can carry out this kind of heavyweight emotional excavation with such feather-light flicks of his trowel. That’s Hong’s gift, as counterintuitive as it is unique: he makes molehills out of mountains. Read full review

A.O. Scott

Jun 23, 2016

Contemplating both tales in succession can induce a far from unpleasant sense of vertigo, a feeling of standing at the edge of an abyss of wide-open philosophical questions and deep psychological mysteries. Read full review

Blake Goble

Mar 3, 2016

The way Right Now, Wrong Then yields different results, moods, and beats as the result of minor shake-ups in the opening scenes is beyond fascinating, often charming, and at times amusingly uncomfortable. Read full review

Sherilyn Connelly

Jun 23, 2016

In the end, Right Now, Wrong Then is a two-piece puzzle that's less than the sum of its parts. Read full review

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JLuis_001

Sep 21, 2019

I really like films that makes you think after watching them and this is one of them, despite its relative and apparent simplicity.
And although ironically its story deals with something that we really as humans can't do - Repeating the same situation again - the learning this story exposesI really like films that makes you think after watching them and this is one of them, despite its relative and apparent simplicity.
And although ironically its story deals with something that we really as humans can't do - Repeating the same situation again - the learning this story exposes about behavior and social interactions is impressive.

At first it seemed that I was watching a Korean version of Before Sunrise although with its obvious and palpable differences, however you get to know the characters in the same way as in Linklater's film: through their talking.
It's just that you should pay attention to details in another way.

The same title of the film reveals the formula of the story.
The most relevant point perhaps depends on the perspective of each viewer, especially because you will think about your own experiences where perhaps the right thing led you to the wrong and maybe the wrong led you to the right.

As I said, it's a very practical but rewarding film.… Expand

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