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  • 2022
  • The Cinema Guild
  • 1 h 6 m
  • 2022
  • The Cinema Guild
  • 1 h 6 m
Introduction

Summary Youngho (Shin Seokho) goes to see his father who is tending to a famous patient. He surprises his girlfriend, Juwon (Park Miso), in Berlin where she is studying fashion design. He goes to a seaside hotel to meet his mother and brings his friend Jeongsoo (Ha Seongguk) with him. In each instance, he anticipates an important conversation. B...

Directed By: Hong Sang-soo

Written By: Hong Sang-soo

  • 2022
  • The Cinema Guild
  • 1 h 6 m
  • 2022
  • The Cinema Guild
  • 1 h 6 m

Introduction

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 12 Critic Reviews
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Summary Youngho (Shin Seokho) goes to see his father who is tending to a famous patient. He surprises his girlfriend, Juwon (Park Miso), in Berlin where she is studying fashion design. He goes to a seaside hotel to meet his mother and brings his friend Jeongsoo (Ha Seongguk) with him. In each instance, he anticipates an important conversation. B...

Directed By: Hong Sang-soo

Written By: Hong Sang-soo

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 12 Critic Reviews
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Generally Favorable Based on 12 Critic Reviews
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83% Positive
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17% Mixed
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90
Jan 28, 2022
Introduction’s economy is deceptive, its staying power surprising.
By Justin Chang FULL REVIEW
83
Mar 4, 2021
Introduction initially feels like a smaller, quieter addition to the filmmaker’s oeuvre. Still, it proves to be another delicate and profound testament to how our lives can always be intertwined with those from our past, to the everyday human interactions, and especially to the honesty and wide-eyed possibility of youth.
By Caitlin Quinlan FULL REVIEW
80
Jan 18, 2022
Its clarity and simplicity—and the outrageous, nearly humorous audacity with which its brisk mysteries conjure wide-ranging, complex, and turbulent stories—makes it among Hong’s most compulsively rewatchable films.
By Richard Brody FULL REVIEW
80
Mar 3, 2021
This is a ‘minor’ Hong compared to some of the sixteen films he has premiered since 2010 . . . But it’s still a delight, a wistful, smart, chamber piece that gently teases out questions about whether you can love someone without controlling them in some way, whether acting can be sincere or sincerity can be an act, and how much of our life in the present and future is conditioned by our life in the past (a lot, as it turns out – but we knew that already).
By Lee Marshall FULL REVIEW
78
Feb 2, 2022
Introduction feels like a mediation on how time chips away at first impressions: What started as something beautiful and simple can become complicated, unattainable, and hard to hold on to.
By Jenny Nulf FULL REVIEW
75
Mar 3, 2021
Introduction is a thick, tangled ball of yarn, compact but dense; like beloved Hong influence Bresson’s off-screen space, non-narrative information is ample and cosmic. But for all the deliberate choices and teasing ellipses, this is one of the director’s more meager works, appearing unfinished and misshapen rather than productively clipped at the edges.
By David Katz FULL REVIEW
58
Mar 4, 2021
Slight and discursive even by the filmmaker’s idiosyncratic standards, Introduction refuses to auto-correct for anyone who doesn’t already speak conversational Hong.
By David Ehrlich FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Jeonwonsa Film
Release Date Jan 21, 2022
Duration 1 h 6 m
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Awards

Berlin International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
Buil Film Awards
• 2 Nominations
Korean Association of Film Critics Awards
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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