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Hill of Freedom

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Kwon travels back to Seoul from the mountains, and has to sort letters from Mori to make sense of what is going on.
Hill of Freedom

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Critics Consensus

As carefully crafted and delightful as a nesting doll, Hill of Freedom is a frothy entry with certain substance from the great Hong Sang-soo

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Marc Savlov Austin Chronicle Jun 12, 2020
3.5/5
That may sound like some terribly serious arthouse navel-gazing, but ultimately Hill of Freedom is surprisingly satisfying in its sheer - albeit abjectly disjointed - fish-out-of-water ordinariness. Go to Full Review
Glenn Kenny New York Times Jun 11, 2020
The ingenuity of the movie's structure is stimulating and delightful... Go to Full Review
Richard Brody The New Yorker Oct 6, 2014
With modest means and a limited field of action, Hong achieves a complexity akin to the grand historical meditations of Alain Resnais; steering clear of explicit politics, he conjures revealing attitudes through reverberant-and often comical-details. Go to Full Review
Grant Watson Fiction Machine Jan 14, 2025
6/10
Hill of Freedom is a modest and elegant character drama with one key innovation. Go to Full Review
Manu Yáñez Otroscines.com Dec 29, 2023
4/5
In today's cinema, no one makes films as formulaic and at the same time as unpredictable as Hong's; no other director expresses his radicality in such a discreet way. Go to Full Review
Fernando E. Juan Lima Otroscines.com Dec 29, 2023
4/5
Without reaching the perfection of the beautiful Oki's Movie, Hong always delivers; 66 minutes of pleasure guaranteed. [Full review in Spanish] Go to Full Review
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Hong Sang-soo

Director

Ryô Kase

Mori

Moon So-ri

Youngsun

Seo Young-hwa

Kwon

Kim Eui-sung

Sangwon

Youn Yuh-jung

Juok

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Movie Info

Synopsis Kwon travels back to Seoul from the mountains, and has to sort letters from Mori to make sense of what is going on.
Director
Hong Sang-soo
Producer
Kim Kyoung-hee
Screenwriter
Hong Sang-soo
Distributor
Grasshopper Films
Production Co
Jeonwonsa Films
Genre
Drama
Original Language
Korean
Release Date (Theaters)
Jun 12, 2020, Limited
Release Date (Streaming)
Jun 19, 2020
Runtime
1h 6m
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