movies: In Our Day

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title	country	year	length	director	url	blurb	virtual_screening	programmer_blurb	trailer_url	language
In Our Day	South Korea	2023	84	Hong Sang-soo	https://www.siff.net/festival/in-our-day	In another one of South Korean auteur Hong Sang-soo’s naturalistic, low-key narratives about life’s quiet truths (his 30th feature film!), two parallel stories thematically link together—an actress unsure of her future, and an aging poet unsure of his past.	0	Prolific South Korean minimalist Hong Sang-soo takes things to the extremes of simplicity with his 30th feature. Two parallel storylines see artists seek to understand their own craft as they answer queries from inquisitive upstarts. In one, disillusioned actress Sangown (Hong regular Kim Min-hee) examines why serving a storyteller and finding one’s own truth will always be in conflict. In the other, an aging poet (Ki Joo-bong) who has found sudden popularity questions the search for meaning in the world. This closing selection for the 2023 Directors’ Fortnight at Cannes Film Festival is light on narrative, even for Hong, allowing the stories to play off each other in mysterious ways. Do the recurring motifs mean they are secretly connected or merely in dialogue? In what ways do the quotidian moments that populate the film reflect or refute the conclusions its main characters have reached? In Our Day is another keenly observed example of Hong’s ability to mine resonance from the otherwise ephemeral.—Betsy Cass		Korean