In Another Country | |
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Hangul | |
Revised Romanization | Dareun Naraeseo |
McCune–Reischauer | Tarŭn Naraesŏ |
Directed by | Hong Sang-soo |
Produced by | Kim Kyeong-hee Hong Sang-soo |
Written by | Hong Sang-soo |
Starring |
Isabelle Huppert Yoo Jun-sang |
Music by | Jeong Yong-jin |
Cinematography | Park Hong-yeol Ji Yoon-jeong |
Edited by | Hahm Sung-won |
Production
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Jeonwonsa Films
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Distributed by | Jeonwonsa Films JoseE Films |
Release date
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Running time
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89 minutes |
Country | South Korea |
Language | Korean English |
In Another Country (Hangul: 다른 나라에서; RR: Dareun Naraeseo) is a 2012 South Korean comedy-drama film written and directed by Hong Sang-soo. Set in a seaside town, the film consists of three parts that tell the story of three different women, all named Anne and all played by French actress Isabelle Huppert. The film competed for the Palme d'Or at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival.
The film was selected as part of the 2013 Hong Kong International Film Festival.
The framing story has young film student, Won-joo (Jung Yu-mi) and her mother Park Sook (Youn Yuh-jung) hiding from their debtors in Mohang, a seaside town in Buan, North Jeolla. The bored younger woman sets out to write a screenplay whose plot will use the place they’re staying in for the location, but eventually comes up with three variants, using the same basic idea in all of them.
In each case, Won-joo's protagonist is a "charming French visitor" named Anne (Isabelle Huppert): in the first section, she's a famous filmmaker visiting a fellow Korean director Jong-soo (Kwon Hae-hyo) and his very pregnant and jealous wife Geum-hee (Moon So-ri); in the second, she's the wife of a French motor-executive who comes to the same guesthouse to meet her lover, a Korean filmmaker, Moon-soo (Moon Sung-keun); in the third, she's a divorced housewife who arrives with her university lecturer friend Park Soon (again Youn Yuh-jung) for some peace and quiet, after her husband left her for his young Korean secretary.