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Introduction
Directed by
Hong Sang-soo
Not Rated
2021
66m
Drama
6.2
81%
6.4
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A young man travels from South Korea to Berlin to surprise his girlfriend.
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Cast of Introduction
Shin Seok-ho
Youngho / Production Assistant
Park Mi-so
Juwon / Boom Operator / Production Assistant
Kim Young-ho
Father
Ye Ji-won
Nurse
Ki Joo-bong
Old Actor
Seo Young-hwa
Juwon's Mother
Kim Min-hee
Painter / Production Manager
Cho Yun-hee
Youngho's Mother
Ha Seong-guk
Jeongsoo
Hong Sang-soo
Director / Writer / Producer / Director Of Photography / Editor / Original Music Composer
Seo Ji-hoon
Production Sound Mixer
Kang Tae-u
Production Assistant
Introduction Ratings & Reviews
WBUR’s Arts & Culture
Sean Burns
Builds to a soju-soaked eruption of the filmmaker's usual sozzled table talk that seems too slight a climax for even such a miniature, 66-minute movie.
Arts Fuse
Betsy Sherman
As many a filmmaker has demonstrated (including one of Hong's idols, Yasujiro Ozu), lyrical shots of the ocean can help induce a feeling of transcendence. This one gave me the improbable tingle.
Spectrum Culture
Joel Copling
Simply a series of gatherings, which lead to conversations, which in turn lead to a gentle revelation about its central character.
Austin Chronicle
Jenny Nulf
Introduction feels like a mediation on how time chips away at first impressions: What started as something beautiful and simple can become complicated, unattainable, and hard to hold on to.
Chicago Reader
Kathleen Sachs
There's very little substance, with only a meager bit of exposition providing any kind of throughline, yet the film confounds in its modest ambitions.
The Scarecrow
Robert Horton
Enough cigarettes burned in the film to fill a three-hour epic.
Los Angeles Times
Justin Chang
Another of the writer-director's sharp, elegant miniatures.
Screen Slate
Jon Dieringer
Hong's films are seemingly guided by the faith that ... discomfort can ripen with comic pleasure and, if you look hard enough, shiver with the profound.
New York Times
A.O. Scott
It's a taste worth acquiring.
From the Front Row
Mattie Lucas
Another deeply perceptive study of fate and human nature from one of the foremost cinematic observers of the human condition.
The New Yorker
Richard Brody
The battle of the generations is fought passive-aggressively in this spare, wry, yet bitter drama by Hong Sangsoo.
Film Freak Central
Walter Chaw
Introduction would make a terrible gateway to Hong's films, but it functions as a fairly handy appendix to great works like his Woman is the Future of Man, Right Now, Wrong Then, and... Tale of Cinema.
Film Festival Today
Christopher Llewellyn Reed
Forgettable, it is also visually uninspiring, perhaps not quite the introduction one might hope for. "Farewell" would be a better title. Or maybe just a brusque "buh-bye."
In Review Online
Lawrence Garcia
Introduction ... deliberately weakens the story links between its three sections, delaying or even withholding the expected markers of (diegetic) continuity.
Critic's Notebook
Martin Tsai
So what's the Korean Woody Allen to do when his American counterpart now resides on the blacklist?
IndieWire
David Ehrlich
Slight and discursive even by the filmmaker's idiosyncratic standards, "Introduction" refuses to auto-correct for anyone who doesn't already speak conversational Hong.
IONCINEMA.com
Nicholas Bell
It's life, it's funny, it's Hong Sang-soo.
Deadline Hollywood Daily
Todd McCarthy
Even if Introduction feels like just that, an appetizer, it still offers up more to chew on than some full meals.
Variety
Jessica Kiang
As bracing as a brief dip in a freezing sea after a rather too soju-soaked luncheon.
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