Builds to a soju-soaked eruption of the filmmaker's usual sozzled table talk that seems too slight a climax for even such a miniature, 66-minute movie.

| Apr 26, 2023

As many a filmmaker has demonstrated (including one of Hong’s idols, Yasujiro Ozu), lyrical shots of the ocean can help induce a feeling of transcendence. This one gave me the improbable tingle.

| Apr 21, 2023

... Natural and apparently unpredictable. [Full review in Spanish]

| Sep 15, 2022

The subtle variations that Hong can convey with the power of a hug alone make this movie worth watching... it connects us with the simple pleasure of contemplating life. [Full review in Spanish]

| Jun 14, 2022

Simply a series of gatherings, which lead to conversations, which in turn lead to a gentle revelation about its central character.

| Mar 21, 2022

Even die-hard fans of the idiosyncratic South Korean auteur are likely to find this slight and sluggish film patience-testing.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Feb 10, 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.

| Feb 3, 2022

There's very little substance, with only a meager bit of exposition providing any kind of throughline, yet the film confounds in its modest ambitions.

| Jan 28, 2022

Enough cigarettes burned in the film to fill a three-hour epic.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 28, 2022

Another of the writer-director's sharp, elegant miniatures.

| Jan 28, 2022

Hong's films are seemingly guided by the faith that ... discomfort can ripen with comic pleasure and, if you look hard enough, shiver with the profound.

| Jan 24, 2022

It's a taste worth acquiring.

| Jan 20, 2022

Another deeply perceptive study of fate and human nature from one of the foremost cinematic observers of the human condition.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jan 18, 2022

The battle of the generations is fought passive-aggressively in this spare, wry, yet bitter drama by Hong Sangsoo.

| Jan 18, 2022

Introduction would make a terrible gateway to Hong's films, but it functions as a fairly handy appendix to great works like his Woman is the Future of Man, Right Now, Wrong Then, and... Tale of Cinema.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Nov 29, 2021

Forgettable, it is also visually uninspiring, perhaps not quite the introduction one might hope for. "Farewell" would be a better title. Or maybe just a brusque "buh-bye."

| Original Score: 1/4 | Oct 10, 2021

Clocking at mere 65 minutes, is an unusually serene drama for the director. Perhaps it was the result of our collective helplessness and fear for the future that Hong felt when he conceived the project, in regards to the younger generation.

| Oct 4, 2021

Introduction ... deliberately weakens the story links between its three sections, delaying or even withholding the expected markers of (diegetic) continuity.

| Jun 6, 2021

"INTRODUCTION" continues the legacy of Hong Sang-soo, in his usual style everyone seems to enjoy, particularly when the duration is measured.

| Apr 11, 2021

So what's the Korean Woody Allen to do when his American counterpart now resides on the blacklist?

| Mar 16, 2021