Oki's Movie

a film by Hong Sangsoo
2010, 80 minutes

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Synopsis

One of Hong's most structurally audacious films, Oki's Movie comprises four short films arranged in an almost nesting doll formation. As each section reveals itself, impressions of a love triangle emerge as talented young director Jingu and his teacher, Professor Song, vie for the affection of ever-earnest film student Oki. Oki's Movie beguiles as it befuddles and, in its moving final section, inaugurates Hong's interest in female subjectivity.

Reviews

"With dry, crisp visual wit and mercurial psychological insight, Hong probes the dreams and delusions of youth and age" - Richard Brody, New Yorker

"simple yet unbelievably effective"- Christopher Bell, Indiewire

"Mr. Hong has found yet another stimulating form for sincerity, not to mention irony and insight, and it’s worth savoring" - Nicholas Rapold, New York Times

"Ambiguities and ironies abound in a characteristically wry, witty, prismatic tale" - Geoff Andrew, Time Out