On the Beach at Night Alone
Hong Sang-soo , South Korea, 2017o
Winner of the Silver Bear for Best Actress at the 2017 Berlinale, Kim Min-hee plays a young Korean woman who is visiting Europe to reflect on her life – after having given up everything at home: her work, her friends, her married lover – and who then returns to her home country. With a title inspired by a poem by Walt Whitman, this poetic portrait indirectly evokes an affair of the director himself that caused a scandal in South Korea.