“This may sound very irresponsible, however I don’t know what I’m doing,” South Korean filmmaker Hong Sangsoo instructed a Berlinale presser this afternoon when quizzed on his distinctive directing type.
The prolific filmmaker is again at Berlin with A Traveler’s Wants, his seventh movie in three years. The movie stars French display screen veteran Isabelle Huppert and Sangsoo has six credit on the movie, together with director, screenplay, cinematography, modifying, and music and he’s additionally listed because the movie’s producer.
“I begin with some targets after which I’ve a acknowledged working methodology that I’ve developed. And I imagine in a sure taking place between individuals,” he continued.
A Traveler’s Wants is Huppert’s third collaboration with Sangsoo, and he or she instructed the Berlinale presser that the Korean filmmaker supplies a inventive setting like no different filmmaker she has labored with. She stated that is largely because of his technique of working with out a script.
“It’s very tough to venture your self into the story or position as a result of there isn’t a position or story. There may be simply the best way he captures the current second and the state of an individual confronting a sure world,” Huppert stated of Sangsoo.
“And that is why I like working with Hong. You actually can not go to work with him the identical approach you go together with one other director. It’s actually a novel expertise.”
The pic additionally stars Sangsoo regulars Lee Hyeyoung and Kwon Haehyo. The obscure official synopsis reads: This lady who got here from who is aware of the place says she got here from France. She was sitting on a bench in a neighborhood park, diligently enjoying a toddler’s recorder. With no cash or technique of supporting herself, she was suggested to show French. In that approach she grew to become a trainer to 2 Korean ladies. She likes to stroll barefoot on the bottom and lie down on rocks. And when she is as much as it, she tries to see every instantaneous in a non-verbal approach, and to stay her life as factually as potential. However life stays as arduous as ever. She depends on Makkeolli every single day for a small little bit of consolation.
Finecut is dealing with worldwide gross sales on the pic. A Traveler’s Wants debuts this night in competitors in Berlin.
The Berlinale runs till February 25.
