The Woman Who Ran
2021
| Cinema Guild | Release Date: July 9, 2021 |
Starring:
Eun-mi Lee, Hae-hyo Kwon, Min-hee Kim, Sae-Byuk Kim, Seon-mi Song, Suk-ho Shin, Sung-guk Ha, Young-hwa Seo
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Slashfilm
Oct 14, 2020
In The Woman Who Ran, Hong lets go of all vanity and gives Kim a well-deserved spotlight. With Kim’s rueful performance, and the film’s roaming, Eric Rohmer-like sensibilities, The Woman Who Ran allows itself to take solace in serenity and not worry so much about the would haves and could haves.
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Jul 8, 2021
Jul 8, 2021
The Film Stage
Feb 28, 2020
The Guardian
Dec 16, 2020
Watching this film means recalibrating your expectations so you can gauge the subtleties and absorb the sotto voce implications about relationships and sexual politics. Pretty much all the way through, nothing very sensational seems to be happening. And yet the movie’s sensational meaning is hiding in plain sight: in the title.
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Feb 28, 2020
Although perhaps on the enigmatic end of the Hong spectrum, The Woman Who Ran touches rewardingly on themes such as relationship dynamics and gender roles. The delicacy of the predominantly female-driven storytelling is unassuming but beguiling. And Hong goes so far as to skewer his own tendency to indulge monologuing windbag male characters in previous films.
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Oct 6, 2020
The Woman Who Ran is ultimately a minor doodle, even by Hong’s standards; it lacks the games of nonlinear structure, cognitive dissonance, or lightly surrealist Groundhog Day cycles that mark his best work. But the film has its moments, too, most of them concerned with the way social propriety affects communication.
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