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By Derek Smith (382) for Tiny Mix Tapes (64) on 03 Oct 2017

The Day He Arrives is a minor effort from Hong, but it's also rather humorous and, like his other films, contains a brilliantly constructed…

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By Brett Michel (122) for Boston Phoenix (1,372) on 18 Jul 2012

Hong may be copying a template from his earlier movies about flailing directors (Like You Know It All, Woman on the Beach), but each film is…

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By J. R. Jones (1,337) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 05 Jul 2012

The listless execution may remind you less of 8 1/2 than of Woody Allen's whiny Stardust Memories…

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By Richard Brody (868) for New Yorker (1,403) on 22 Apr 2012

Hong abstracts the tense network of fragile relationships to crisp, briskly sketched lines that he adorns with bubbly and self-deprecating…

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By Manohla Dargis (1,909) for New York Times (5,786) on 18 Apr 2012

The Day He Arrives has real force and its experimentation is in the service of a moving story about a man who, as he says at the start, has…

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By Keith Uhlich (870) for Time Out (7,510) on 16 Apr 2012

A 25-words-or-less pitch for The Day He Arrives - shot in luminous black-and-white - might go something like: Hong Sang-soo does Groundhog Day…

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By Nick Pinkerton (448) for Village Voice (8,525) on 16 Apr 2012

Like Rohmer, Hong is wonderful with atmospheric effects, using whirling snowfalls to place his characters' inchoate longing in relief…

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Film critics gave The Day He Arrives (2011) an average score of 76%, indicating generally very positive reviews.

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