Hahaha 2010

This brand new film from Festival regular Hong Sang-soo took the Un Certain Regard prize at Cannes in May. “As tangy and refreshing as sangria… Basking in the sunny, relaxed mood of its cleverly punning title – which means ‘Summer, Summer, Summer’ in Korean – Hahaha is a midsummer night (and day) sex comedy that sees director Hong Sang-soo at his most good-humored and tolerant… As ever, booze and sex are the overt or covert agendas of almost every situation… A director and a film critic drink and trade pleasant memories of a brief stay in a small seaside town, not realizing that they were in the same places with the same people at nearly the same time. But amid the male protagonists’ intellectual pretensions, egocentric self-delusions and loutish lust for women, there is an ever so gentle move toward self-reflection and even an impulse (however fleeting) to make others (rather than just themselves) happy.” — Maggie Lee, Hollywood Reporter