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  • 2022
  • The Cinema Guild
  • 1 h 25 m
  • 2022
  • The Cinema Guild
  • 1 h 25 m

Summary After years living abroad, former actress Sangok (Lee Hyeyoung) is back in Seoul, staying with her sister Jeongok (Cho Yunhee) in her high-rise apartment. The siblings sleep late, have breakfast in a cafe and visit a restaurant owned by Jeongok's son. But as the details of Sangok's day accrue (a spill on her blouse, an encounter at her c...

  • 2022
  • The Cinema Guild
  • 1 h 25 m
  • 2022
  • The Cinema Guild
  • 1 h 25 m

In Front of Your Face

Metascore Universal Acclaim Based on 13 Critic Reviews
85
User Score Mixed or Average Based on 4 User Ratings
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Summary After years living abroad, former actress Sangok (Lee Hyeyoung) is back in Seoul, staying with her sister Jeongok (Cho Yunhee) in her high-rise apartment. The siblings sleep late, have breakfast in a cafe and visit a restaurant owned by Jeongok's son. But as the details of Sangok's day accrue (a spill on her blouse, an encounter at her c...

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Metascore
Universal Acclaim Based on 13 Critic Reviews
85
85% Positive
11 Reviews
15% Mixed
2 Reviews
0% Negative
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim Based on 13 Critic Reviews
85
85% Positive
11 Reviews
15% Mixed
2 Reviews
0% Negative
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100
Sep 26, 2022
A captivating film of deep emotional power; like weeds slowly cracking the pavement above, its movements in isolation are barely felt but its effects are profound.
By Christopher Machell FULL REVIEW
100
Jul 19, 2021
The nothing much that unfurls over the following eighty or so minutes feels like everything.
By Lee Marshall FULL REVIEW
90
Sep 26, 2022
This is another subtle jewel, wise and charming, insouciant yet measured, and somehow squaring the circle between the overwhelming sadness of lost time and the glint of eternity in a passing instant.
By Trevor Johnston FULL REVIEW
90
May 5, 2022
Here, more than ever, Hong’s cinema is also revealed to be a philosophy—his method not a means but an end in itself, an embrace of the history of the art and a preservation of its future in the eternal present tense of creation.
By Richard Brody FULL REVIEW
90
Jul 19, 2021
Typical of Hong’s work, the laid-back anti-storytelling lets daily life flow slowly by without incident, until a revelatory twist in the last act gives the film its meaning. It will certainly appeal to his festival fan base but neophytes beware: It takes patience to get to hidden truths, and even so they are about as clear as a Zen koan.
By Deborah Young FULL REVIEW
83
May 6, 2022
In most other filmmaker’s hands, these seemingly inconsequential observations wouldn’t seamlessly create a tender and alluring narrative. Yet Hong Sang-soo seems to have it all down to a science.
By Natalia Keogan FULL REVIEW
60
May 5, 2022
The secret is poised somewhere between triteness and disarming simplicity.
By Ben Kenigsberg FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Jeonwonsa Film
Release Date May 6, 2022
Duration 1 h 25 m
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Website http://www.cinemaguild.com/theatrical/infrontofyourface.html
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Awards

Buil Film Awards
• 3 Nominations
Gijón International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
International Cinephile Society Awards
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations

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