“[Hong’s] most openly emotive and personal filmmaking to date … palpably life-affirming.”
—In Review Online

“Suggests that Hong has yet to exhaust his methods of deriving significance and beauty from the most quotidian of details, and perhaps that his strongest work is yet to come.”
—Slant

“One of the director’s sweetest films, registering ultimately as a touchingly sincere tribute to his life in filmmaking and to love discovered through art-making.”
—Little White Lies

Writer-director Hong Sang-soo’s cycle of micro-budgeted films about creative people having crises, getting drunk, and revealing the depths of their souls continues with this characteristically sneakily funny story about a novelist and filmmaker who attempt to collaborate on a film.