Daydreams and Fidelity in Paris

Two meandering tales of male desire and moral evasion unfold in broad daylight. In Love in the Afternoon, Éric Rohmer’s final Moral Tale, a middle-class married man toys with temptation while convincing himself of his virtue. In Night and Day, Hong Sang-soo offers a restless portrait of a Korean painter in Paris, caught between women and his justifications. Both films trace the emotional detours of men wrestling with their conscience, ego, and desire. 

Original Title: 밤과 낮
Director: Hong Sang-soo
Runtime: 144 mins
Country: South Korea
Language: Korean with English Subtitles
Rating: M18

Synopsis

Night and Day follows Sung-nam, a married painter who flees to Paris to avoid arrest for smoking marijuana in South Korea. Wandering through the city without much purpose, he settles into a loose routine, encountering old acquaintances and striking up connections with art students. A mix of narcissism and guilt weighs on him as he reflects on his life back home.

Although being Hong’s first film to be set outside of South Korea (and also one of his longest), the film is characteristic of his style and fixations, mapping the contradictions of a man caught between conflicting motives in an episodic structure. As days and nights blur in the Parisian city, the film explores how being in exile can both illuminate and obscure the self.

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