‘Nowhere to Lay My Eyes’ Review: Kim Minhee Once More Gives a Melancholy Masterclass in a Hong Sangsoo Miniature

‘Nowhere to Lay My Eyes’ Review: Kim Minhee Once More Gives a Melancholy Masterclass in a Hong Sangsoo Miniature

The death-and-taxes certainty of Hong Sangsoo’s filmography — comparable to Woody Allen’s prime career run in its regularity, consistency and recurrence of ideas and actors across a gently varying tonal spectrum — has lately been infused with some mild unpredictability. Earlier this year, his Berlinale premiere “The Day She Returns” continued an occasional experimental jag […]

Locarno Review: Nowhere to Lay My Eyes Finds a Reenergized Hong Sangsoo

Hong Sangsoo’s Nowhere to Lay My Eyes is, as his fans like to say, “a good Hong.” Now 35 features into his famously prolific career, that “good” can sometimes ring like faint praise, but Nowhere to Lay My Eyes feels like more than just a break from the norm. It’s funny and in-focus, neither of which have been guarantees of late, and features a now-somewhat-rare lead performance from Kim Min-hee, an actress whose presence has always made his work…