Walk Up

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    Date

    Sunday, June 18, 2023
    2:00 pm–3:45 pm

    Location

    Freer Gallery of Art
    Meyer Auditorium

Description

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A return to Hong Sang-soo’s frequent use of unorthodox narrative structures, Walk Up stars Hong regular Kwon Hae-hyo as Byung-soo, a successful filmmaker who takes his daughter to meet an old friend, Mrs. Kim (Lee Hye-young), in a small apartment building she owns. When Mrs. Kim invites him to move into the vacant top-floor apartment, the film swerves into gently surrealist territory, as each floor of the building comes to embody a different period in Byung-soo’s life—or perhaps a series of alternate realities altogether. “A film of gently discombobulating pleasures,” writes the Los Angeles Times’s Justin Chang, “constructed with a care and intricacy that never hinders the life, spontaneity and sense of possibility bursting out of every frame.” It will leave you feeling like you’ve spent the afternoon polishing off a few bottles of wine with a group of good friends. (Dir.: Hong Sang-soo, Korea, 2022, DCP, 97 min., Korean with English subtitles) 

Cost

Film admission policy: Films are shown in the 300-seat Meyer Auditorium. Free tickets (up to four per person per film) can be reserved using the links above. Patrons may also register at the door if seats are still available.

Topics

Films

Event Series

Korean Film Festival DC 2023