"After a creatively blocked filmmaker Jung-rae (Seung-woo Kim) convinces his friend to join him on a brief holiday to finish a script, he begins an affair with the friend’s girlfriend, Mun-suk (Hyun-jung Go). Customary in Hong’s doubled-narrative structures, the film’s second half inverts this triangle when Jung-rae returns to the beach and meets Sun-hee (Seon-mi Song), a woman who resembles Mun-suk.
Woman on the Beach revisits the kind of listless coastal resort town of
The Power of Kangwon Province, but now during their wintry offseason, where Hong deftly captures the subtle layers of monotony, humor and sadness that connect Jung-rae’s two trips." Film at Lincoln Center
Trailer:
https://mubi.com/en/films/woman-on-the-beach/trailer
Interview at the FLC:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzawztfUgyc