Isabelle Huppert joked that the 13-day shoot of Hong Sangsoo’s was “a super-production” by the Korean filmmaker’s usual standards. The actor and director’s two previous collaborations, and , took six and nine days to shoot, respectively, she recalled. Huppert was speaking onstage at the New York Film Festival with fest Artistic Director Dennis Lim, about .
The film, which won the Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize in Berlin last February, had its North American premiere in New York. “I love doing it,” Huppert said of Sangsoo’s ultra-minimal productions, whose sets feature only a “tiny” camera, the director, his assistant and the actors. “It says so much about what it means to do a film.
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It tells you how the cinema is flexible. It goes from the infinitely big – I was in , for example – and it can be infinitely small. But it’s not because you don’t have much that you don’t have enough.
And that’s really what you experience on a movie directed by Hong Sangsoo. ..
. The whole thing is really a reflection about money and time.” The ultra-prolific director has had 23 of his 31 feature films screen at the New York Film Festival, Lim said.
He has two films in this year’s Main Slate ( is the other) but did not travel to New York because, naturally, he is busy shooting his next project. Huppert explained to Lim that she and other cast members were not provided with a script or any guidance about the story in advance. They received pages of dialogue an.
