Grass

The irony of Hong Sang-soo's films is that they may seem inconsequential and puerile, but they are nonetheless effective and hypnotic, almost more often than not, because his approach never attempts to show a plot or narrative complexity that auteur films often try to evoke with stories that lack that kind of depth altogether. Grass doesn't offer much variation on what the director has always done. His characters are middle-aged people who express their problems in sequences that don't seem to give them any development or growth over the duration of the narrative but nevertheless you are attentive to what they are voicing. Sang-soo's stories are quite common, and most of them feel quite natural. You don't need to make a connection with his characters or feel identified by their situations for the stories to work, or at least that's almost always been the case when I watch this director's films. That's his magic. It can look so simple and yet it's more substantial than a lot of other things that wallow in their grandiloquence and pretentiousness.