Uscirà negli Stati Uniti il 15 febbraio il nuovo film del maestro coreano Hong Sang soo, intiolato Hotel By The River.
Premio per il miglior attore al Festival di Locarno, il film è poi approdato al Toronto film Festival e al New York Film Festival. Interpretato ancora dalla sua musa Kim Min-hee, Hotel By The River è un’altra commedia agrodolce, in bianco e nero, distillato purissimo del cinema umanista di Hong.
An aging poet, Younghwan (Ki Joobong), summons his two estranged sons (Kwon Haehyo and Yu Junsang) to a solitary hotel beside the Han River because he feels his death is near. While waiting for them to arrive, he meets two women (Kim Minhee and Song Seonmi) out walking in the new-fallen snow and is struck by their angelic beauty. But the women have come to the hotel to do some healing of their own. As Younghwan moves between the women and his bickering sons, he also moves between his two minds: one that walks on the street and the other that communes with the eternal.
Negli ultimi dieci anni Stanze di Cinema ha recensito molti dei suoi film: Ha Ha Ha, The Day He Arrives, In Another Country, Hill of Freedom, Right Now Wrong Then, The Day After, Claire’s Camera, On The Beach At Night Alone.
Piccoli gioielli da recuperare, se solo la distribuzione italiana non fosse così miope…
