By the Stream
Singapore Premiere
Hong Sang-soo South Korea 2024 111 min PG13 (Smoking Scenes)
The lines between artmaking and lovemaking blur in this playfully flirtatious dramedy set in a women’s arts school.
University instructor and artist Jeon-im invites her once-famous uncle, Si-eon, to salvage a theatre skit after the original director was fired for dating and cheating on three actresses. While Si-eon rehearses, and reminisces his younger days and similarly fumbled romances, the ousted director returns with clumsy pleas for love and forgiveness. Romance remains stubbornly in the air when Jeon-im’s boss becomes smitten with Si-eon.
Just as Jeon-im routinely goes to a stream to grasp its patterns by sketching it, By the Stream observes life’s fleeting drama. With his usual slate of chance encounters, drunken confessions and oblique affections, this is yet another Hong Sang-soo ode to artmaking and the little things in life.
30 Nov, Sat 9:00PM / 111 min
Golden Village Bugis+, Hall 5
2 Dec, Mon 2:00PM / 111 min
Filmgarde Kallang, Hall 3
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By the Stream
수유천
Hong Sang-soo
South Korea
2024
Korean
111 min
PG13 (Smoking Scenes)
Singapore Premiere
Hong Sang-soo
Prolific South Korean auteur Hong Sang-soo is known for his naturalistic films. Since his debut in 1996, he has made 32 features and a few short films, and has won four Silver Bear awards at the Berlinale. By the Stream premiered at Locarno and won Best Performance for Kim Min-hee’s portrayal of Jeon-im.
Hong Sang-soo
Kim Min-hee,
Kwon Hae-hyo,
Cho Yun-hee