SummaryA young film student and her mother run away to the seaside town of Mohang to escape their mounting debt. The young woman begins writing a script for a short film in order to calm her nerves. Three women named Anne appear, and each woman consecutively visits the seaside town of Mohang. The first Anne is a successful film director. The second Anne... Read More
Directed By:Hong Sang-soo
Written By:Hong Sang-soo
In Another Country
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
77% Positive
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Nov 8, 2012
91
In Another Country is a paragon of any given Hong movie's intrinsic charms, and yet it also manages to break from the pattern by including an English-speaking character as one of its leads.
Apr 15, 2013
80
Beguilingly simple, relaxed in its mastery and enhanced by Isabelle Huppert’s impeccable poise.
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Jul 24, 2013
7
This is quite a charming low budget movie, with irritatingly funny dialogues and characters that let's you overlook the unimaginative photography. Acting and script are great, even if the stories don't really lead anywhere, they leave you with a feeling lighthearted enjoyment.
Sep 10, 2022
6
Smooth, practical and in some instances also insubstantial. While that might sound indifferent to what this story tells, the truth is that it's completely in sync with what we've come to know from a director like Hong Sang-soo. No tonal variation, but it's the classic battle that the arthouse genre often fights between what passes for entertainment and what seems intriguingly pretentious and we're either not getting it or perhaps we just think we do and thus its importance rests solely on us.
Jan 25, 2013
75
If you stare at it too hard, In Another Country, an exercise in drollery from South Korea's Hong Sang-soo, simply evaporates. But if you take the film as the bauble it is, you'll be entertained by its lighthearted wit, social observations and resolute sidestepping of profundity.
Nov 8, 2012
70
What the point here might be is a bit more elusive. It may be simply to allow Ms. Huppert, one of the most adventurous actresses in movies, the opportunity to try something new. And that might be enough.
Nov 6, 2012
70
Two arthouse "worlds" collide with amusing and intriguing -- if hardly earth-shattering -- results in cult Korean writer-director Hong Sangsoo's In Another Country.
Nov 6, 2012
60
No exchanges flare into true weirdness; rather, the mood is lingering and tentative. Undoubtedly, this is the movie's intent, but it's a fairly banal comment on foreign estrangement (or love) that could have used some roughing up.
Nov 6, 2012
58
It almost seems as if Hong is poking fun at his own single-minded oeuvre, creating a fractal representation of how his other films obliquely interrelate.
Sep 29, 2014
6
Unwittingly it is my very first film from the universally acclaimed South Korean auteur Sang-soo Hong, by virtue of Isabelle Huppert. But out of my heart, the film is frustratingly bland and ineptly flippant. All the setting is exclusively in a remote beach and a family hotel near sea side. After an informal conversation between a pair of mother and daughter, Park Soo (Yoon) and Wonju (Jeong), about their familial dispute. Then Wonju starts to write three short stories for her script, each centres a French woman named Anne (Huppert), respectively as a female director, an adulteress and a divorcée (conveniently dressed in blue, red and green), and Wonju becomes the hotelier. continue reading my review on my blog: google cinema omnivore, thanks
Production Company:
- Jeonwonsa Film
Release Date:Nov 9, 2012
Duration:1 h 29 m
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Awards
Buil Film Awards
• 5 Nominations
Cine21
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Cannes Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
