Showing posts with label Cannes 2017. Show all posts
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Tuesday, August 8, 2017

Review: THE DAY AFTER Offers Bitter Portrait of Infidelity


By Pierce Conran

Returning to black and white for the first time since The Day He Arrives (which screened in Un Certain Regard in 2011), Hong Sangsoo returns to the Cannes competition section with The Day After, a focused rumination on love and betrayal which is, much like his other 2017 films On the Beach at Night Alone and fellow Cannes-invitee Claire's Camera, an act of bitter self-reflection.