Hong Sangsoo

Published: June 14, 2016, 6:04 p.m.

Hong Sangsoo is a filmmaker who isn\u2019t afraid to repeat himself. Fashioning narratives around lonesome or just pathetic male artists\u2019 attempts at finding romantic connection, Hong\u2019s films are characterized by their long takes and minute variations\u2014a slightly off-center frame of two people talking, a digital zoom, a subtle readjustment of focus\u2014that make us question what\u2019s really going on in the scene. In honor of his soju-fueled comedy of manners, Digital Editor Violet Lucca served as bartender for Genevieve Yue, assistant professor at Eugene Lang College at the New School, Leo Goldsmith, co-editor of the film section of The Brooklyn Rail, Max Nelson, editorial assistant at the New York Review of Books, and Jeff Reichert, filmmaker and co-editor of Reverse Shot.