On the Beach at Night Alone (Bamui haebyun-eoseo honja) [Sub: Eng]

In its quiet, pensive manner, the movie plays like a cogent stanza in the ever-flowing lyricism of Hong's career.

A plotless but wryly likeable study of human emotions.

Unfussy in form, open in expression and gentle in reach as its maker revisits such recurring preoccupations as loneliness, regret and the value of love in life and art.

In the film, Hong Sang-soo simultaneously positions filmmaking as the ultimate act of atonement and evasion.

Beneath the recognisably familiarity of [Hong's] many trademarks lurks a portrait of lust, love and longing.

It'll likely take a diehard Hong fan to truly admire this dreamily scripted fare, lacking as it does the writer-director's usually rigorous musing on fate and perception.

Every one of Hong Sang-soo's efforts has their delights.

It's a self-aware film in many ways, and perhaps a self-deprecating one for a director who's never shied away from putting his own lesser angels on screen.

A melancholy air blows through every haunted frame of Hong Sang-soo's On the Beach at Night Alone.

The new film by the great Korean director has a plot with many autobiographical tints and is perhaps the most frank, direct and emotional of his entire career. [Full review in Spanish]

"On The Beach At Night Alone" feels like it will be exceptional even for longtime diehard Hong Sang-Soo fans.

The striking similarities between this film - about an actress who has an affair with a married film director - and the intense local speculation surrounding Hong's own private life distinguishes it from the renowned auteur's other work.