Photo courtesy Sandro Baebler

Film at Lincoln Center presents in partnership with The Korea Society The Hong Sangsoo Multiverse: A Retrospective of Double Features, offering a thorough compendium of the filmmaker’s career, through a two-part series running from April 8-17 and May 4-10, 2022.

Few if any contemporary directors have amassed as vast and prolific a body of work as Hong Sangsoo. Working at an unparalleled clip of productivity, the South Korean auteur has helmed 25 of his 27 features this century, each a valuable addition to an oeuvre that returns time and again to the same themes, preoccupations, and strategies, but always with some fresh angle, some radically new way of telling a familiar story. Hong’s films seize the material of everyday life—regret, infidelity, professional frustrations, the casual cruelty and brutish folly of men and women alike (but especially men)—in the service of exploring psychology and metaphysics in elegant, subtly profound ways.

In a structural gesture befitting Hong, Film at Lincoln Center's two-part survey consists entirely of double features, with each film paired differently each time it screens and special 2-for-1 pricing. This career-spanning retrospective, timed to the release of In Front of Your Face, will also feature in-person appearances by Hong, who will return to NYC for the first time since 2017.

All film showings will take place at the Walter Reade Theater (165 W 65th St) or the Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center (144 W. 65th Street).

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