Proyecciones Especiales 2018

Claire’s Camera / La caméra de Claire

Hong Sang-soo I 2017 I 69'

SYNOPSIS

Claire, a school teacher, travels with a camera, which could be magical, on her first visit to Cannes. There she will meet a sales assistant, Manhee, who has recently been fired from fher job and with So Wansoo, a film director whose one-night romance with Manhee has been the cause of her dismissal.

BIOGRAPHY

Hong Sang-soo

HONG SANG-SOO (South Korea, 1960) debuted in 1996 with The Day a Pig Fell into the Well. Later, Turning Gate (2002) brought him fame that has continued with films such as Woman on the Beach (2006) and Night and Day (2008), making his style increasingly refined and precise. The Day After had its world premiere at Cannes 2017.

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Critical text

At the equator of Claire’s Camera, the main character - a high school teacher played by Isabelle Huppert- confesses to her new South Korean friend (Kim Minhee) that the only way to change reality is to look at it over and over again. This revealing sentence does not go unnoticed by Hong Sang-soo film lovers, since it is about its essence. His shocking repetitions, his small variations, or his characters that unfold mysteriously in many of his films, force us to mistrust the fiction that was represented before our very eyes in order to review it. On this occasion, the filmmaker forces us to re-examine the meeting between this teacher who is striving to take Polaroids to interact with the world and a film sales agent who is embodied by Hong’s muse. Chance will make their paths cross during the penultimate edition of the Cannes Festival, when the sales agent is unfairly fired from her distributor for having had an affaire with one of the directors she represented. Claire’s Camera is also a must for film lovers who want to get to know the underworld of the Cannes Film Festival. CARLOTA MOSEGUÍ

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