Walk Up

Eine heiter-melancholische Weise, komponiert vom Regisseur, stimmt uns auf eine vielsagende Begegnung ein, noch bevor das erste – selbstredend schwarzweiße – Bild zu sehen ist: Auftritt Vater und Tochter, ein Laden mit großem Schaufenster. Die Chefin eilt sogleich herbei, und es ist nach wenigen Sekunden klar, dass Vater und Chefin eine lange Geschichte verbindet. Diese vollständig zu enträtseln, erlaubt uns der Film jedoch ebenso wenig, wie die verwinkelte Architektur des Gebäudes zu entschlüsseln, in dem die Handlung sich zuträgt. Eine weitere meisterliche Filmerzählung von Hong Sangsoo, der es auf wundersame Weise nie müde wird, uns das Staunen zu lehren. (Katja Wiederspahn)

Am 31. Oktober in Anwesenheit von Hong Sangsoo.

Weitere Vorstellungen im Rahmen der Retrospektive Hong Sangsoo ab 2. November im Filmmuseum.

In American English, you can use the word “story” with two completely different, meanings. A “story” can be the floor in a building and it can also be, well, a story. In WALK UP, both meanings curiously combine and connect, a probably unintentional layer of interpretation in a movie that’s full of them.
This is a film about a director who goes with his daughter to visit an old friend, an interior designer, to ask her for advice about the profession, since the young woman wants to become a designer just like her. That’s the entrance to this three-story building in which four stories are actually being told, since you have to consider the ground floor too. During the course of an unspecified amount of time (it could be weeks, months, even years), the filmmaker will meet different women and, over the course of a few meals and a lot of wine and soju, a whole life may have passed. Or probably not.
Hong Sangsoo creates another apparently simple but extremely complex puzzle of relationships (between a father and his daughter, a man and a few women) in different stages of life. A game that explores desires, dreams, regrets and, of course, cinema. Life as a three-story story. (Diego Lerer)

On October 31. in the presence of Hong Sangsoo.

Further screenings will be shown from the 2nd of November as part of the Retrospective Hong Sangsoo at Filmmuseum 

Hong Sangsoo: VIRGIN STRIPPED BARE BY HER BACHELORS (2000), WOMAN ON THE BEACH (2006), NIGHT AND DAY (2008), HA HA HA (2010), IN ANOTHER COUNTRY (2012), NOBODY’S DAUGHTER HAEWON(2013), OUR SUNHI (2013), HILL OF FREEDOM (2014), RIGHT NOW, WRONG THEN (2015), THE DAY AFTER (2017), GRASS (2018), HOTEL BY THE RIVER (2018), THE WOMAN WHO RAN (2020), INTRODUCTION (2021), IN FRONT OF YOUR FACE (2021), THE NOVELIST’S FILM (2021)