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A Traveler’s Needs
Yeohaengjaui pilyo
Isabelle Huppert is reunited with Korean maestro Hong Sangsoo in an irresistibly enigmatic comic vignette about language, poetry, exile and the art of communication.
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Credits
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Director-screenwriter
Hong Sangsoo
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With
Isabelle Huppert, Lee Hyeyoung, Kwon Haehyo
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South Korea 2024. 90min
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Courtesy of
Finecut Co., Ltd
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Languages
Korean, French, English
With English subtitles
Access information
Relaxed screening:
Thursday 17 October 15:00
Introduction
In her third collaboration with South Korea’s super-prolific auteur, Isabelle Huppert – here at her most slyly mischievous – plays Iris, a Frenchwoman in Korea who offers language classes using her own highly oblique method. As mysteries thicken around Iris and her method, this teasingly elusive miniature offers poetic insight and philosophical wit, together with delicious performances from a cast including Hong regulars Lee Hyeyoung and Kwon Haehyo.
Jonathan Romney
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