What Does that Nature Say to You

i took off my glasses to watch for the full experience

𝐻𝑒𝓇𝒶𝓁𝒹

Classic Hong scenario: you meet your girlfriend's family, things seem to go relatively well, then you sit at the table, start to drink, and embarrassment ensues. Of course, things haven't gone that well; the casualness of the filmmaking and the light comic tone play against…

Filipe Furtado

Leave it to Uncle Hong to deliver a film that looks like it was shot on a Sony Ericsson phone and still murder the Berlinale competition. He‘s just flexing at this point.

MathisRaabe

Hong Sang-soo proved that nature is like the oldest psychiatrist. Even one of the scariest moments for two lovers—meeting the parents—feels lighter when surrounded by trees and greenery. Being close to nature is deeply connected to our state of mind. A simple walk can ease…

Jomari Bashin

at this point I'm kinda convinced Hong is a very professionalized AI programmed for/by the berlinale to appease the cinephiles in the world to have at least one arthouse essential regularly turning up at the festival year after year after year. the production costs lowered…

shookone

Probably my favorite Hong Sang-soo film so far. For me, this is the first time Hong has provided a universal entry point into his somehow self-indulgent world-building, and even without the presence of Kim Min-hee or Isabelle Huppert, it still remains airtight. A…

nick

The masculine urge to grow questionable facial hair in times of vulnerability.

Berlinase

Hong Sang-soo is on a great streak lately and, after the near-perfect By the Stream, his latest What Does That Nature Say to You is another masterpiece about male weakness and awkward encounters. The film is very minimalist even by Hong's standards, reduced to a cast of…

Darren Carver-Balsiger

With last year’s By the Stream I wondered if Hong has developed a Bressonian fascination with the youth… maybe! Here he takes a playful jab at his 35-year-old poet — “youth” is perhaps generous, but he is definitely of the generation where filial duties carry different…

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