French actress Isabelle Huppert isn't only the star of "In Another Country," she's also the center of gravity for this playfully wispy yet oddly captivating doodle by South Korean filmmaker Hong Sang-soo.

| Jul 22, 2021

Whatever your thoughts on how the film compares to the director's own celebrated filmography, the film is a beautiful, magical love letter to Isabelle Huppert.

| Nov 16, 2020

A lovely and engaging look at people whose own lives have become prisons who find love and redemption through shared experiences in a foreign land, as well as one of Hong's most joyous and purely entertaining films.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 6, 2019

... charming in a way that makes me curse recent American-made rom-coms, and a satisfying way to spend and hour and a half.

| Mar 3, 2019

Hong tries to create an ironic narrative tapestry, à la a Woody Allen schema, in having the scenario of Anne coming to Mohang play out multiple times with differing results

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 10, 2018

"In Another Country" is a delightful comedy that shows Huppert's ability to play characters who aren't obsessive neurotics or dangerously sexually frustrated, as in films like Denis' "White Material" or Michael Haneke's "The Piano Teacher.

| Feb 22, 2018

...Huppert's character is a social flaneur who, whether she knows it or not, searches for guidance in others, the world around her and ultimately in herself in order to find a response, an intentional act taken in conscious responsibility.

| Nov 16, 2017

An effective comedy where the laughs don't come from farts or slapstick humor, but from everyday situations. [Full review in Spanish]

| Jul 11, 2016

Hong embraces the power of fiction both to reflect reality and to reflect upon itself, and, in doing so, once again shows why he's one of the most important directors working today.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 13, 2015

Full Review | Original Score: B | Feb 28, 2013

An intriguing little cross-cultural curio that plays like a woozy, jazz-improv riff on romantic futility and destiny.

| Original Score: B- | Feb 7, 2013

By the time its third story kicked in, "In Another Country" lost me.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jan 31, 2013

If you take the film as the bauble it is, you'll be entertained by its lighthearted wit, social observations and resolute sidestepping of profundity.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 25, 2013

A beguiling set of variations on a theme, a gossamer-light tude composed for delight rather than dissection.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jan 11, 2013

Isabelle Huppert has an inviting, steady glow in Hong Sang-soo's loosey-goosey, humorously light celebration of the French star, cinema's possibilities, and his colorful, endlessly combative homeland.

| Nov 9, 2012

Isabelle Huppert has reached that magical point where she gives a thrill of delight simply by showing up, her decades of great performances seeming to hover around her like a halo.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 9, 2012

A movie may be a representation of the world, but it is also something that happens in the world, which means that sustaining a cinematic illusion and breaking it are equally beside the point.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 8, 2012

In Another Country sets its characters adrift inside its own narrative sphere, letting them live several lives in the course of an hour and a half, and letting us share in their freedom.

| Nov 8, 2012

The cumulative impression is of figures being lightly traced in the sand only to be inevitably washed away, intentionally ephemeral and quite charming for it.

| Nov 7, 2012

It's a fairly banal comment on foreign estrangement (or love) that could have used some roughing up.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 6, 2012