Prolific director Hong Sang-soo is on fine form again with In Front of Your Face, as he channels the beauty of life’s simplicities into his well-drawn characters.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 13, 2024

One of the filmmaker’s finest efforts.

| Apr 26, 2023

...part of being a Hong fan is adjusting to not knowing how long it’s been since the last bit of action, or even if the next part might have taken place before it...

| Apr 21, 2023

In Front of Your Face is a small miracle of a film.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 13, 2023

Korean filmmaker Hong Sangsoo creates a delicate atmosphere with this softly moving drama about two sisters.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 28, 2022

Heady promises are made, erotic currents simmer, and time becomes tangible, the conversation and characters so authentic the screen almost breathes.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 28, 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.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Sep 26, 2022

Much of the film’s allure comes from a mesmerising Lee Hye-yeong, playing a former actor hoping to reconnect with the past and come to terms with the future.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 25, 2022

The film just gives you so much to unpack. Repeat viewing essential.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Sep 23, 2022

You know what you’re getting with a new Hong Sang-soo film and In Front of Your Face doesn’t disappoint.

| Sep 20, 2022

In Front of Your Face is a mysterious, gentle piece of work, unworldly and effortless.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 19, 2022

Small conversations suggest larger lives, especially within his characters. Daily life, drinking, seduction and bumbling through torrents of language, sure, but this is one of the most enticing chapters of [Hong's] recent filmography.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Aug 16, 2022

The subtle game of seduction and inebriation is a sort of hyperrealism that's way more poetic than exact. [Full review in Spanish]

| Jul 15, 2022

... Makes us think on the kindness of strangers until Hong finishes his moral tale with a lucid chuckle. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 14, 2022

Encourages you to enjoy what is sensible regardless of its secrecy... Exactly what makes Hong cinema great. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jul 13, 2022

Hong Sang-soo continues to explore new terrain within his seemingly repetitive filmography, producing one of his most bracingly reflective works yet.

| May 11, 2022

One of Hong’s most emotionally generous films. In a career full of small triumphs, it’s a beautiful gesture of family love, of non-specific spiritual awakening, and self-possession meant to create outward waves of goodness.

| May 7, 2022

Finds Hong in a somewhat more reflective and sentimental mood. The themes are written in a much bolder font than his usual work, but his style remains as delicate and ephemeral as ever.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | May 6, 2022

In Front of Your Face beautifully maximizes the minute details of daily life

| Original Score: 8.3/10 | May 6, 2022

If Hong is consistent in his material and his style, down to his signature zooms, his features are uneven in quality.

| May 5, 2022