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2012 · comedy · drama

In Another Country

Directed by Hong Sang-soo1h 29m2012
ElsewhereIMDb6.44kRT83%Metacritic69TMDB6.1125
  • warm
  • measured
  • signature
  • intimate
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Warm, measured, gentle comedy / drama, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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A young woman and her mother run away to the seaside town of Mohang to escape their mounting debt. The young woman begins writing a script for a short film in order to calm her nerves: There are three women named Anne, and each woman consecutively visits the seaside town of Mohang. A young woman tends to the small hotel by the Mohang foreshore owned by her parents. A certain lifeguard can be seen restlessly wandering up and down the beach that lies nearby. Each Anne stays at this small hotel, receives some assistance from the owner's daughter, and ventures onto the beach where they meet the lifeguard.

Our read · In Another Country (2012) reads as a warm, measured, inventive comedy · drama entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.

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You want gentle Korean vignettes of a woman named Anne at the seaside.

ends bittersweetit stays with youmeditativegrips by minute 10attention 3/5earns its lengthsubtitles: partial
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around

Skip it tonightYou want strong plot or dislike repetitive art-house structures.

DNA · twelve axes

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Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.

Mood · HeavyCosy
Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic
Intensity · GentleExtreme
Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal
Hope · NihilisticRedemptive
Stakes · IntimateEpic
Humour · NoneBroad
Reality · GroundedFantastical
Density · SparseTwisty
Warmth · ColdTender
Auteur · TransparentSignature
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