Proyecciones Especiales 2018

The Day After / Geu Hu

Hong Sang-soo I 2017 I 92'

SYNOPSIS

A woman who begins to work in a publishing house is involved in the love affair of her boss when his wife confuses her with the mistress, a former employee with whom he has just broken up.

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

What is the worst thing that may happen to a shy employee on her first day of work? Hong Sang-soo immortalizes it in his miraculous drama The Day After. When the innocent Song Aerum (Kim Minhee) starts her workday at one of her favorite publishing houses, she will be slapped by the boss’s wife after being mistaken for his mistress. As the title indicates, The Day After puts us in the day after the pathetic discovery of the infidelity, which is, during the period of the shameful mistake committed by the resentful wife. Thus, this mistake will arise new misunderstandings, manipulations, and false identities that will make possible the preservation of adultery. The penultimate film of the South Korean filmmaker is a Machiavellian game of masks that mocks the perversity of the selfish, and glorifies the goodness of the naive. A devastating masterpiece that puts forward one of the most pessimistic looks on love and marriage in Hong Sang-soo’s cinema. CARLOTA MOSEGUÍ

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