HOTEL BY THE RIVER

By Sang-Soo HONG

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Drama - Completed 2018


Festivals
& Awards

Locarno Film Festival 2018
Concorso Internazionale Pardo for Best Actor
Toronto - TIFF 2018
Masters
Film Fest Gent 2018
Official Selection - Global Cinema
Stockholm IFF 2018
Open Zone
Busan IFF 2019
    • Year of production
    • 2018
    • Genres
    • Drama
    • Countries
    • KOREA (South)
    • Languages
    • KOREAN
    • Duration
    • 96 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Sang-Soo HONG
    • Synopsis
    • An old poet staying for free in a riverside hotel summons his two estranged sons. This is because he feels, for no apparent reason, like he is going to die. After being betrayed by the man she was living with, a young woman gets a room at the hotel. Seeking support, she summons a friend.
      The poet spends a day with his sons and tries to wrap up the loose ends in his life. But it's not so easy to do that in one day. But then he sees the young woman and her friend, after a sudden, unbelievably heavy snowfall.