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In Another Country

2012 · 1h 29m · NOT RATED Drama
Directed by Hong Sang-soo

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A young woman 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: There are three women named Anne, and each woman consecutively visits the seaside town of Mohang. A young woman tends to the small hotel by the Mohang foreshore owned by her parents. A certain lifeguard can be seen restlessly 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.

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By the time its third story kicked in, "In Another Country" lost me.

Jeff Shannon, Seattle Times
Fresh

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.

Walter V. Addiego, San Francisco Chronicle
Fresh

A beguiling set of variations on a theme, a gossamer-light etude composed for delight rather than dissection.

Sheri Linden, Los Angeles Times
Fresh

Isabelle Huppert has reached that magical point where she gives a thrill of delight simply by showing up, her decades of great performances seeming to hover around her like a halo.

Farran Smith Nehme, New York Post
Fresh

A movie may be a representation of the world, but it is also something that happens in the world, which means that sustaining a cinematic illusion and breaking it are equally beside the point.

A.O. Scott, New York Times

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