Woman on the Beach (Haebyonui yoin) Critic Reviews

Accessible, and often funny.Read the full review

The film lacks Hong's usual insight and narrative innovation. It occasionally even feels self-indulgent.Read the full review

Wry and tender and delicately melancholic, Woman on the Beach shows a newly confident filmmaker again working near the top of his form after the disappointing “Tale of Cinema” (2005), even if the new film unfolds straightforwardly, with none of the narrative ellipses and puzzle-box complications, the flashbacks and parallel story lines of his earlier work.Read the full review

Woman On The Beach is a stripped-down, witty explication of how we all get stymied by the impulses and options inherent in the simple act of living.Read the full review