We are joined by Asian Film Archive programmer Alexander Lee for our second installment in our Hong Sang-soo series! Alex talks to the guys about pairing Hong Sang-soo deep cuts with Eric Rohmer classics, and specifically the pairing of Night and Day with Love in the Afternoon. Eli chats about the narrative motifs that are on display in this film, Wilson tries to unlock the secret of Hong’s use of zooms, and Ben contends with the slimy protagonist of this film. 

Singaporean listeners to Deep Cut you can catch Night and Day on July 13th at the Oldham Theatre. Buy tickets here!

Links:

Hong Sang-soo Notarized: Night and Day

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Timestamps:

00:00:00 Intro

00:01:17 Alex introduces Twin Tales

00:06:45 Film Context

00:10:21 General Reactions

00:20:58 Hong’s big stylistic choices

00:23:22 Narrative Motifs

00:28:30 Yoo-Jung

00:31:55 Sung-nam

00:33:14 Odd patterns

00:37:22 Night and Day vs. Love in the Afternoon

00:40:41 Tech and sex of the 00s

00:42:42 The male mess of Hong

00:45:52 Dream sequences

00:50:54 The look of the film

00:56:18 Being married?

00:59:16 Hong notarized

01:00:40 Opening of the film and Hill of Freedom

01:02:43 Music

01:04:30 More on zooms

01:05:35 Paris

01:07:52 Other small odd things

01:09:24 Preview of Twin Tales

01:13:11 Outro