Walk Up
South Korea / 2022 / 97 min
In Korean with English subtitles
Toronto International Film Festival
San Sebastián International Film Festival

Familiar yet fresh, Hong Sang-soo’s 28th feature film revisits the auteur’s staple themes, characters and filmmaking language with new perspective. Director Byung-soo (Kwon Hae-hyo) brings his daughter, who plans to study interior design, to see his longtime designer friend Ms Kim (Lee Hye-young). After talks and drinks, Ms Kim gives them a tour of her four-storeyed apartment building, going room by room, floor by floor. The journey is ordinary yet extraordinary, as the different levels of the building point to various phases of life for Byung-soo. Hong Sang-soo again uses repeating scenarios and spaces, as well as the gentle revelations of chatter, to meditate on life’s questions and longings.

DIR:
Hong Sang-soo
CAST:
Kwon Hae-hyo, Lee Hye-young, Song Sun-mi
TIME & VENUE
06/11 7:50PM PREMIERE ELEMENTS
09/11 7:50PM Broadway The ONE
15/11 7:50PM PREMIERE ELEMENTS
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