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By Michael Phillips (2,622) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 02 May 2018

Strange is a word that pops up frequently in Claire’s Camera, a lovely doodle and the latest from South Korean writer-director Hong Sang-soo…

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By David Sims (534) for The Atlantic (1,046) on 09 Mar 2018

Though this latest project might feel like a trifle (it’s only 69 minutes long and was filmed at Cannes to take advantage of a press appearance…

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By Simon Abrams (730) for RogerEbert.com (5,563) on 09 Mar 2018

Claire's Camera is, like many of Hong's best comedies before it, amusing without necessarily being laugh-out-loud funny…

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By Richard Brody (868) for The New Yorker (1,837) on 08 Mar 2018

[Hong's] tightrope-long takes of scenes filmed in settings ranging from the picturesque to the banal (restaurants and apartments, café terraces,…

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By Glenn Kenny (1,728) for The New York Times (9,847) on 08 Mar 2018

Ms. Huppert’s presence — steady, warm, thoughtful but with a casual air — keeps the entire enterprise classically comedic…

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By Chuck Bowen (756) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 07 Mar 2018

Hong Sang-soo's film is governed by a narrative circle that suggests relief as well as entrapment…

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By Giovanni Marchini Camia (57) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 26 May 2017

Huppert and Kim are clearly having fun riffing off one another, each speaking in lightly broken English and conveying the pleasures of ephemeral…

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By Bradley Warren (32) for The Playlist (3,871) on 23 May 2017

If Hong is often a filmmaker who can be accused of making the same movie over and over again, this latent muse brings a veritable freshness…

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By Deborah Young (235) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 23 May 2017

Feeling more spontaneous and improvised than ever, this tale of chance encounters at a big film festival is easy on the eye and strewn with…

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By Guy Lodge (731) for Variety (12,700) on 23 May 2017

Characters often most reveal themselves when they’re saying nothing of any particular consequence in Hong’s short, loose script…

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By Jason Bechervaise (13) for Screen International (2,241) on 23 May 2017

Undoubtedly the film’s charm comes from the performances of Kim and Huppert, and scenes involving the pair and their tangible chemistry resonate…

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By Cath Clarke (570) for Time Out London (344) on 23 Jan 2017

Cameraperson’ is a thoughtful examination of the role of the documentary-maker, showing us how it feels to be that person behind the camera…

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By Ben Nicholson (124) for CineVue (2,163) on 06 Jan 2017

Johnson is pushing the audience to see these images as a dialogue between herself and these subjects, both in the frame of her representation…

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By Bill Goodykoontz (2,123) for Arizona Republic (3,909) on 06 Jan 2017

At the beginning of the film, you want Hong to work through the scenes faster. By the time it’s done, you’ll wish they lasted longer…

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By John Semley (121) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 15 Dec 2016

Film, not film, whatever it is, Cameraperson plays like a study not only of cinema itself, but a warm, welcome reminder that there is (ideally)…

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By Ann Hornaday (1,919) for Washington Post (9,851) on 12 Oct 2016

In a mesmerizing series of images, encounters and delicate juxtapositions, Cameraperson testifies to a world in which it would be clear to…

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By John Defore (1,351) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 12 Oct 2016

Personal footage interacts intriguingly with reportage here, sometimes making it more than the greatest-hits montage it initially seems…

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By Mick Lasalle (3,303) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 28 Sep 2016

What results isn’t a straight autobiography, obviously, but rather the autobiography of a career and, most importantly, the autobiography…

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By Justin Chang (1,535) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 21 Sep 2016

For Huppert, most celebrated for her uncompromising severity in films like Elle and The Piano Teacher, the movie is an opportunity to cut gloriously…

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By Mark Feeney (434) for Boston Globe (6,852) on 14 Sep 2016

The film shifts back and forth in time…

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