Description

Best Director, 2016 San Sebastian Film Festival
Official Selection, 2016 Toronto International Film Festival

Minjung could be a romantic, a liar, a drunk, a twin, or a mere figment of the male narcissist’s imagination. She could be of sound mind or she could be of many. But tell that to the men in her life, from a boyfriend who can’t tolerate the rumors he’s been hearing about her public intoxication, to the passerby on the street who can’t help but pause to tell her they swear they’ve met her before. As the men cycle through, their insecurities and possessive self-importance are refracted through Minjung’s prism-like identities, creating a delightful game of misrecognition and awkwardness that make her a classic Hong Sang-soo heroine.

Marginally more linear than Hong’s recent films, but no less structural in its repetitions, YOURSELF AND YOURS ponders the dizzying woes of casual obsession and the way encounters tail-spin off each other, abetted by beer and self-delusion. As only he can do, Hong gleefully keeps the audience at a safe distance from the dramatic exasperations, sculpting a viewfinder of echoes, zooms, and jaunty music that brings into focus that thin line between pity and the pitiful. –Brian Hu

Co-Presented by: KABA-SD

Director's Bio

Selected Filmography
2008: Night and Day
2010: Hahaha
2011: The Day He Arrives
2012: In Another Country
2014: Hill of Freedom
2015: Right Now, Wrong Then

Credits

Writer: Hong Sang-Soo
Starring: Kim Ju-hyuk, Lee You-young

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