Kim Min-hee, who hid the Hong Sangsooo face while talking about an affair, changed his lover for eight years
"We're stuck every day. Never fell apart. This is my first time. Five years. Never, never, never, ever. He wants to live like that. He said that his loved one should be together unconditionally. "
It is the ambassador for Kim Min-hee in the 2020 release "The Runaway Woman," which director Hong Sangsoo and Actor Kim Min-hee worked together. In the film, Kim Min-hee appears as a man who has never been away from her husband for five years after marriage. Gamhee emphasizes the story that all three of his acquaintances he met during his business trip have never fallen apart from his husband and Haru for five years. The time the film was released was five years after "It's Right Now and It's Wrong Then" (2015) when director Hong Sangsoo and Kim Min-hee became lovers. In the characters in the movie, the two projected themselves.
Hong Sangsoo, director of the lover who has been wearing the "infidelity tag" for the eighth year, and Kim Min-hee will show a new film "Novelist's movie" on the 21st. This work depicts a novelist Junhee's younger bookstore, who persuades her to make a movie with her Actor Gilsoo, who met her a long way. Kim Min-hee stars as one of the main roles, the female Actor Gilsoo.
Before meeting Kim Min-hee, Hong Sangsoo's film always featured an affair. However, after meeting Kim Min-hee, director Hong Sangsoo began to examine life, death, and human relations through movies. 'The Fugitive Woman' is a work that became the starting point for director Hong Sangsoo, who used 'infidelity' as a signature material, to no longer appear in adultery. This new film 'The Novelist's Movie' also explores life and contains a daily but more philosophical story.
As such, director Hong Sangsoo shows his interest after meeting Kim Min-hee as a 'material'. Kim Min-hee is a 'position' and has been changing since meeting with director Hong Sangsoo. After Actor, he became the production director and became the assistant of Hong Sangsoo. Kim Min-hee previously took part in the work as production director instead of not showing up directly on the screen in Hong Sangsoo's "In front of Your Face" (2021). In this new film 'The Novelist's Movie', he also starred in Actor and production. Kim Min-hee has now become a muse of Hong Sangsoo, which is also in the production and planning areas, including acting.
Director Hong Sangsoo and Kim Min-hee are seen only occasionally at overseas film festivals, due to the public's stinging gaze towards the two men in an affair. At the 72nd Berlin International Film Festival held in February, two people were seen together in the official ceremony in two years. The two men attended the main events of the "Novelist's Movie" and worked on the schedule. In the video released by the film festival, they were able to share their affection or meet their eyes. When the film was called as the winner of the Silver Bear Award, Kim Min-hee hugged and shared his joy with director Hong Sangsoo. However, at the premiere of the "Novelist's Movie" domestic media on December 12, the two did not appear again.
What is different, however, is that Kim Min-hee has re-emphasized on the poster of the Hong Sangsoo director's film. Kim Min-hee's direct face on posters of Hong Sangsoo's work comes six years after 2017's 'Only on the Beach at Night' It is a small change of Kim Min-hee and Hong Sangsoo, who have been thoroughly hidden in Korea.
The two men, who have never been apart for five years, are still working together as an artist and lover who inspire each other for the eighth year. Since working together nine times, the two have grown as filmmakers, different materials and challenging new areas. However, it is hard to tell the story of two people who have publicly proven their morality defects considering their lives authentically: the reason why the audience can not accept their 'masterpieces' yet.