![]() Landscapes become experiential for Kim Min-Hee’s Younghee, a Korean visitor in Hamburg, turning open spaces into locked ones. Yet in the first part of Hong’s new film, On the Beach at Night Alone, we nevertheless explore landscapes as ways of contextualizing the feelings of the characters. These zooms clarify and emphasize moments for us, limits the space we are in-a method not of freedom, but prevention. ![]() Hong in his more recent years has done something similar: he replaced the cut with the zoom. In an interview with Hong Sang-soo following the release of Right Now, Wrong Then (2015), the director stated, “the artist I admire most is Cezanne.” Cezanne’s impressionism was manifested by abstracting nature into simpler forms. ![]()
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