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Walk Up

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A middle-aged film director, together with his daughter whom he has not seen in years, visits a building owned by an interior designer. They have come because the daughter also hopes to study interior design. The designer owns the 4-story walk-up building, and she takes them up floor by floor to show them the renovations she has done. The three of them go into the rooms on each floor to look around. After the film begins in this way, we start again at the bottom and ascend one floor at a time.
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A nuanced rendering of human existence and artistic complexities, Walk Up stands as one of the most poignant and perplexing films in Hong Sang-soo's oeuvre.

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Alexandra Heller-Nicholas AWFJ.org Aug 21, 2023
Walk Up is a formally cheeky, confident film from one of contemporary cinema’s true masters. Go to Full Review Justin Chang Los Angeles Times Mar 30, 2023
“Walk Up” flows as absorbingly as a dream and is no less pleasurable to puzzle over afterward. Go to Full Review Austin Considine New York Times Mar 23, 2023
Like many great artists, Hong appears in some ways to be trying to tell the same story over and over, each new film an attempt to solve the same essential riddle about what makes us tick. Just as well. Go to Full Review Sergi Sánchez Fotogramas Aug 24, 2023
4/5
Walk Up is about the lives we haven't lived and the ones we still have yet left to live with the hope there'll always be someone willing to imagine them. [Full review in Spanish] Go to Full Review Kathy Fennessy Video Librarian Magazine Aug 24, 2023
3/5
In Korean, Tab translates as “top,” a play on the word “tower,” and Hong uses the title building well, with each floor representing a different stage in Byung-soo 's life. If he intended the film as a self-portrait, though, it's not a very flattering one. Go to Full Review Carlota Mosegui Cinemanía (Spain) Aug 22, 2023
4.5/5
Walk Up is built from repetition and a difference in the conversational sequences of its honest characters, creating a sensation of temporary stillness. [Full review in Spanish] Go to Full Review Read all reviews

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dave d @RT34924333 Sep 18, 2024 This is Hong Sang-soo reaching for a film that while beautiful just isn't there. None of the characters are interesting, little happens, and despite being dialogue heavy, the film is never pushed forward. Ultimatly it was frustrating and forced. Final Score: 3/10 See more Richard B @RichardB12314 Sep 3, 2024 It's about the creative act and the need to constantly be making new work to feel better. In each in between there can be a depression until the next project allows emotions to regulate. We consume alcohol and cigarettes for example, to make the narcissistic personal life story feel better, and bridge the gap between projects. This may mean drinking and smoking more. At times being alone is a non-consumptive way to feel better. Having something to look forward to is the Ikigai that keeps you going. The themes of Persona and narcissism appear repeatedly because they connect our image of ourselves and how we don't want to feel embarrassed around those who only want to converse with the people who need to use us, the successful or flatterers. When alone, that pressure drops, but the need for money makes us reach out to society to create more projects and put on that persona once again. There are sweet moments of success mixed with family troubles and difficulties keeping connections, eg. divorces mentioned in the movie. The movie seems simple, but with each piece of dialogue a dense nugget of psychological insight falls out. See more Mary B @MaryGB Apr 1, 2023 Slow, boring, senseless See more Read all reviews
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Hong Sang-soo

Director

Lee Hye-yeong

Ms. Kim

Kwon Hae-hyo

Actor

Lee Hye-young

Actor

Song Seon-mi

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Cho Yunhee

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Movie Info

Synopsis A middle-aged film director, together with his daughter whom he has not seen in years, visits a building owned by an interior designer. They have come because the daughter also hopes to study interior design. The designer owns the 4-story walk-up building, and she takes them up floor by floor to show them the renovations she has done. The three of them go into the rooms on each floor to look around. After the film begins in this way, we start again at the bottom and ascend one floor at a time.
Director
Hong Sang-soo
Producer
Hong Sang-soo
Screenwriter
Hong Sang-soo
Distributor
Cinema Guild
Production Co
Jeonwonsa Film
Genre
Drama
Original Language
Korean
Release Date (Theaters)
Mar 24, 2023, Limited
Runtime
1h 37m
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