Still from A Traveler’s Needs (2024), by Hong Sang-soo.
Still from A Traveler’s Needs (2024), by Hong Sang-soo.
A Traveler’s Needs
7:00 pm–8:30 pm
Directed by Hong Sang-soo (South Korea, 2024, 90 minutes). Korean, French, and English with English subtitles.
A comedy of improbable encounters and unlikely language lessons, A Traveler’s Needs marks the third collaboration between Hong Sang-soo and Isabelle Huppert (following 2012’s In Another Country and 2017’s Claire's Camera). This time, Huppert plays Iris, a woman who finds herself adrift in Seoul. Without any means to make ends meet, she turns to teaching French via a très peculiar method.
Winner of the Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize at the Berlin International Film Festival.
“Isabelle Huppert hypnotizes.… [Hong Sang-soo’s film is] unworldly, gentle and effortlessly minimalist as always.… Hong makes all of this look as easy and fluent as breathing.” —Guardian
Wheelchair accessible
With English subtitles
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