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The Power of Kangwon Province (Korean: 강원도의 힘) is the second film by South Korean director Hong Sang-soo. It follows the lives of a man and a woman who have decided to end their affair. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival.
Apr 4, 1998 · Helmed by one of Korea's leading directors, Hong Sang-soo, Jisook joins two of her girlfriends for a holiday in Korea's Kangwon Province. But in an eerie twist of fate, her former lover, Sangkwon, plans a getaway for the same destination, where tragedy brings them together once again.
- (1K)
- Drama
- Hong Sang-soo
- 1998-04-04
Jun 4, 2021 · A new 2k restoration of Hong Sangsoo's The Power of Kangwon Province opens nationwide in our Virtual Cinema on June 11: https://www.filmlinc.org/films/the-po...
- 2 min
- 2.5K
- Film at Lincoln Center
- Familiar Faces and Places
- Post-Relationship Malaise
- Conclusion
This is Hong’s second feature after The Day a Pig Fell into the Well (which, I haven’t seen yet). From the get-go, the director’s trademark excavation of the slight and undefined elements of romantic and platonic relationships, which often weave in and out of each other, is already nearly fully formed here. The film is presented in a two-act split ...
The very basic elements of Hong’s movies are layered as a facade covering much deeper commentary on human relationships that become larger than the sum of their seemingly simplistic parts. Sometimes it doesn’t work quite as well (see Hill of Freedom), but here the structural play between Jinsook’s storyline and Sangkwon’s elicits a familiar sense o...
The Power of Kangwon Province’s mixture of routine human interactions built around a playful narrative structure works delightfully. This same sort of formula would define the base of much of Hong’s career for the next two decades and counting. While most filmmakers’ early films are subtle hints of latter endeavors, where the ideas are later blown ...
Recently separated lovers (Baek Jong-hak, Oh Yun-hong) have a series of close encounters at a popular mountain retreat.
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- Baek Jong-Hak
- Hong Sang-Soo
- Drama
Presented in a beautiful restoration and newly translated, Hong Sangsoo’s breakthrough second feature, THE POWER OF KANGWON PROVINCE, is an early masterwork from the prolific filmmaker.
Jun 11, 2021 · Etched with precision and conveying a world of feeling, The Power of Kangwon Province is the second feature by the South Korean director Hong Sang-soo and one of the best films you can see this year. Read More. By Manohla Dargis FULL REVIEW. See 1 Critic Review.
