Introduction

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.

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.

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

It's a taste worth acquiring.

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

Slight and discursive even by the filmmaker's idiosyncratic standards, "Introduction" refuses to auto-correct for anyone who doesn't already speak conversational Hong.

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.

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.

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

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]