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The Novelist's Film

Original title: So-seol-ga-ui yeong-hwa
2022 · 1 h 32 min
Directed by Hong Sang-soo
Drama

Cast

Lee Hye-young

Credits

Written by: Hong Sang-soo

Plot

A novelist meets an actress and an old friend.

Sinekatalog’s take

Hong Sang-soo's black-and-white film follows a blocked novelist who meets an actress and decides to make a short film with her. Gentle, simple and deeply human, it won a Berlin Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize.Sinekatalog’s own editorial review – not a user or critic quote.

Ratings

IMDb: 6.8 / 10 (1,770 votes)
IMDb rating and vote count from the IMDb ratings dataset (October 2026). Scores change over time.

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