What Does that Nature Say to You
Singapore Premiere
Hong Sang-soo South Korea 2025 109 min PG13 (Smoking Scenes)
A poet dropping off his girlfriend at her mansion is drawn into a night of food, wine and words, where strangers grow closer.
What begins as a simple drop-off for Dong-hwa at his girlfriend’s mansion drifts into something unexpected. Caught at the front yard by her father, the young poet is drawn inside, and what should have been a moment stretches into a day with her family. Hours move in a gentle rhythm, food at the table, words rising into laughter, and a closeness forms between guest and host. But as dusk deepens into night, the mood shifts. Wine loosens Dong-hwa’s tongue, and the poet, teetering between charm and clumsiness, spills his heart. In the quiet silence of the house, intimacy shows its fragile edge.
In true Hong fashion, the auteur’s latest film continues to delight with his acute candidness and casual wisdom around human nature, exposing the contemporary anxieties shrouded in the air of benign affability.
Synopsis Writer: Qila Gill
1 Dec, Mon 4:30PM / 109 min
National Gallery Singapore, The Ngee Ann Kongsi Auditorium
7 Dec, Sun 9:30PM / 109 min
Golden Village Cineleisure, Hall 2
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What Does that Nature Say to You
그 자연이 네게 뭐라고 하니
Hong Sang-soo
South Korea
2025
Korean
English
109 min
PG13 (Smoking Scenes)
Singapore Premiere
Hong Sang-soo
Hong Sang-soo is an acclaimed South Korean filmmaker known for his intimate, minimalist dramas. His films, often built around chance encounters, conversations, and shifting relationships, blend humour with melancholy. With a distinct style of long takes and zooms, he reveals the fragile poetry of ordinary life. What Does that Nature Say to You is his 33rd feature and premiered in competition at Berlinale.
Ha Seong-guk,
Kwon Hae-hyo,
Cho Yun-hee
Hong Sang-soo
