“About Miracles”
Seeing the “real thing” in Hong Sang-soo’s Woman on the Beach and Éric Rohmer’s Le Rayon vert
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22007277 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jacob Hovind (0000-0002-8157-7156, Towson University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 246-291 |
| Publication date | 2021-07-14 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | CINEJ Cinema Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2158-8724 • E-ISSN: 2159-2411 |
| Publisher | University Library System, University of Pittsburgh (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.5195/cinej.2021.326 |
| OpenAlex | W3180489581 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 4 |
Hong Sang-soo’s cinema is one in which his characters consistently avoid reality, whether by constructing explanatory narratives and patterns or by turning other people into emotionally projected images. Woman on the Beach (2007), I argue, openly diagnoses this tendency and finds instead what one of its characters calls “the real thing.” Placing this film in the context of Hong’s oeuvre as a whole, I explore Hong’s overarching interest in trying to see “the real thing” instead of imaginatively constructing it. And thus, in a career frequently compared to Rohmer’s, Woman on the Beach, with its search for this almost mystical encounter with reality, emerges as Hong’s variation on Rohmer’s own search for what’s real in Le Rayon vert (1986)
Art · Art history · Literature · Movie theater · Mysticism · Narrative · Asian Culture and Media Studies · History · Japanese History and Culture
| Citations per year | 0.2 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2021 - 2021 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |