The South Korean director Hong Sangsoo is one of the most prolific and original directors in the world, tnyfrontrow writes. His new film, “Introduction,” centers on a young couple: two students whose paths are about to diverge.
is both one of the most prolific and one of the most original directors in the world. He has made seventeen features in the past twelve years, and he owes his rapid output both to his original methods and to his naturally overflowing story sense. His new film, “Introduction,” embodies his economical practice in its spare surfaces—and it reflects his profuse dramatic sensibility in the stories teeming beneath its surfaces.
“Introduction” is centered on a young couple in a South Korean city: two students whose paths are about to diverge. At the outset, Young-ho is walking with his girlfriend, Ju-won , en route to a stressful meeting with his estranged father , a wealthy doctor who has summoned the young man to his office in the hope of a reconciliation. Soon thereafter, Ju-won goes to study in Berlin—her mother has a longtime friend , an artist, who lives there alone and has invited her to move in.
The doctor’s office is where, in the effort to reconcile, the estrangement plays its terms out again, as Young-ho is kept waiting both by his father’s professional demands and by the arrival of his father’s friend, a famous actor . Young-ho approaches his father—who’s sentimental yet ultimately indifferent—with an indifference to match. Hoping to milk his father for cash, Young-ho speaks derisively of him to Ju-won, telling her scathingly, “Greed for money is bottomless.
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