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  Review by Thomas Prieto ★★★★½ 1

  My greatest goal in life is to go out drinking with Hong Sang-soo.

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  Review by KYK ★★★★½

  Hong is a master at recalling themes and images; here, he is masterful with dialogue and repetition of language. I wish the subtitles did a better job of translating when the men call her a 또라이 while listing Sunhi's traits (which include smart, brave, reserved, with a great artistic sense). It's translated as simply "odd" but it's more along the lines of labeling her a freak/psycho lol.

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  Review by Peter Labuza ★★★★

  Hong parsed down to the essentials in what (having only seen his last six films) might be his best film in terms of directorial work. New visual textures are abound, from the repeated use of establishing shots that stare into the sky before situating us within the moment (all leading to that final out zoom) to the exceedingly long takes with much less dialogue than usual, emphasizing the spaces and gestures made in a way closer to something like Hou's Cafe Lumiere or that penultimate shot in Tsai's Stray Dogs than the larger beats and more varied intensity seen in films like The Day He Arrives and In Another Country.

  Sunhi begins by being essentially assaulted by a man trying…

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  Review by Marcissus ★★★★

  This movie is so ridiculously cool. easily one of the top 100 hong sang-soo films

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  Review by Stephen Gillespie ★★★ 2

  Ben's Summer of South Korean Cinema Challenge (original list here)
  Review 19/56 (My list here) (Ranked list of films here)
  Category 20-19 : Hong Sang-soo films

  Early on in the film, Sunhi wants a beer. She's fed up and a beer will hit the spot. The bar she goes to won't serve beer without chicken. She just wants a beer but this is not allowed. It doesn't make sense but she has to conform. It is one of a few moments where, in getting what she wants, Sunhi is forced to submit to wider things - and to live a caveated existence.

  Later, she gets a recommendation letter, but that letter is more of a burden and opens up wider…

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  Review by edil 5

  There's no real need to be with a man. There's no love, just an illusion through shared hangouts, filling our loneliness with fried chicken, soju, and sad songs. If this moment feels romantic, it is only because we’re drunk. I might be the only one you can see, but you’re not alone here; look around, there are many others, just like you.

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  Review by Hungkat ★★★

  I usually crave for some soju whenever I watch a Hong movie, but this one straight up made me want chicken.

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  Review by Darren Carver-Balsiger ★★★★ 3

  A lesser Hong Sang-soo film perhaps, but one that is still adorable and appealing. The premise, essentially about the character of Sunhi and her three suitors, basically allows for a bunch of amusing scenarios (usually involving drinking) where characters meet and hide information from each other. It's a film of misunderstandings and sad people looking to Sunhi as their salvation. It's also a crisis of identity for Sunhi, specifically a crisis of how she think she appears in the minds of others. Hong Sang-soo keeps it simple as always, repeating music and locations, leaving Our Sunhi a brief but amusing look at entangled love triangles.

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  Review by Jake Cole ★★★★ 1

  As with Nobody's Daughter Haewon, this is a depiction of a woman constantly struggling to assert her identity against the forces of others attempting to forge her identity for her. In the very first scene, a male classmate lies to her face as either a goof or to ensure she doesn't go off to talk to a man other than himself, and the manipulations rarely let up. But where Haewon often took this sort of abuse meekly, Sunhi regularly bites back. Amusingly, but tellingly, the men who are bewitched by her also call her a psycho, their praise of her introversion running headlong into how intimidated they are by her freely offered backtalk.

  All of the men project their ideal…

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  Review by Logan Kenny ★★★★★

  movies where people frequently get shitfaced and have long conversations about women, filmmaking and life among other things are what cinema was created for
  my first hong sang soo film and what really grabbed me was the periodic development of all the men surrounding sunhi, scene by scene their insecurities and character flaws are revealed. they're fully formed individuals and are treated with empathy but are clearly imperfect and trying to hide themselves behind the masquerades of their supposed identities. sunhi, the one who is called innocent and naive throughout is actually the most mature and knowledgeable of them all, the one with ambition and the one who doesn't need them like they all need her. the dialogue and performances…

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  Review by davidehrlich ★★★½

  digging deeper.

  one of Hong's lighter episodes (wistful as always), continues his recent fascination with female protagonists, like he's looking in on his characters from the other side of a two-way mirror. maybe his most strangely adorable exercise yet.

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  Review by Jake ★★★★

  ”you’re lucky to see me.”

  knowing who you are versus internalizing how others perceive you, especially w/r/t the male gaze. develops very flawed characters with ease here as we watch them hide intentions behind their facades and project onto sunhi.