{"id":15611,"date":"2023-04-18T21:00:15","date_gmt":"2023-04-19T01:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=15611"},"modified":"2023-04-17T14:49:00","modified_gmt":"2023-04-17T18:49:00","slug":"in-front-of-your-face-2021-hong-sang-soo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/15611","title":{"rendered":"In Front of Your Face (2021, Hong Sang-soo)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two sisters go out for a walk and the stars of the previous movie I watched walk by &#8211; it&#8217;s another day in the Hongverse.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image23\/hongface1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Lee Hye-young is a former actress back in Korea and staying with her sister Cho Yun-hee (lead guy&#8217;s mom in <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/15610\">Introduction<\/a><\/em>&#8216;s restaurant scene).  She has a meeting with director Kwon Hae-hyo (<em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/12789\">Yourself and Yours<\/a><\/em>) who wants to film a feature with her, but would settle for a short film, but would settle for sleeping with her.  She tells him (before telling her sister) that she&#8217;s dying, has a few months, and he leaves her a bittersweet message the next morning (&#8220;What I promised yesterday can never happen.&#8221;).  Elsewhere on the trip, she haunts the house where she used to live, reminiscing and coping (&#8220;I believe heaven is hiding in front of our faces&#8221;) and visiting the cafe run by her nephew (the star of <em>Introduction<\/em>).<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image23\/hongface2.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Antoine Thirion in Cinema Scope:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In a body of work whose narrative scope seems to diminish a little more with each film, <em>In Front of Your Face<\/em> is still surprisingly laconic: its story unfolds over 24 hours and has barely ten scenes, one of which takes up a good third of the film &#8230; While the film&#8217;s deceptive structural simplicity seems to adopt its heroine&#8217;s fixation on presence and the present, things never cease quietly going off the rails.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two sisters go out for a walk and the stars of the previous movie I watched walk by &#8211; it&#8217;s another day in the Hongverse. Lee Hye-young is a former actress back in Korea and staying with her sister Cho Yun-hee (lead guy&#8217;s mom in Introduction&#8216;s restaurant scene). She has a meeting with director Kwon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2643,91,1814,229],"class_list":["post-15611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2020s","tag-filmmaking","tag-hong-sang-soo","tag-korea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15611"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15628,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15611\/revisions\/15628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}