Yourself And Yours (Song-Soo Hong, 2016): Country: France, Korea

Reviewed by Felix Palmqvist, Viewed at AFI Film Festival, 2016. Los Angeles, California.

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This is the film for the philosopher, which I’m not! It was not a bad movie just not my cup of tea. If you like slow paced, static, with a lot of dialogue type of film, then this one is for you. It had it’s interesting moments and I got to say that the way the dialogue scenes were basically only one shot, from the angle, with both actors/actress facing each other having up to 5 minutes long conversation without cuts, so that really stands out, never seen a film like that.

Viewed at AFI Film Festival, unfortunately, neither the director or anyone that worked on this film showed up in LA.

Girl sitting at what seems to be a cafe somewhere in Korea, she soon gets a company of a stranger that claims to know her, which she can not relate or remember at all. Later that night she walks home ,where apparently she lives with her boyfriend, they get into a fight because he talks down on her behavior and starts to call her names.  ending up her walking out cold on him.

She goes on a date streak, willingly or not, she seems to keep run into guys that claim to know her from before and her heartbreaked boyfriend does everything he can to find her, without any success. So this goes on for a while.  Until they meet randomly meet in an alleyway and but she does not seem to know who her ex-boyfriend is, but how it all turned up surprised me.

The way the film is shot and edited reminds me of the Swedish/Norwegian film called Force Majeure, with the long takes and the static wide camera angle and music repeatedly playing after every major occasion.

It really has a good and interesting story and the fact that it is pretty much up to you as a viewer to decide how the movie ended. But the long scenes and static camera work made the whole film really slow and boring to watch. This script plus better camera work and faster editing would make a great movie.

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Published:
11.17.16 / 11am
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AFI Filmfest 2016, Films