If you loved Hotel by the River, try The Day a Pig Fell Into the Well

A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.

What they share

Both films are directed by Hong Sang-soo, and they both carry the bittersweet, slow burn mood tags, and they sit in Drama territory. If that's the register that drew you to Hotel by the River, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

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What The Day a Pig Fell Into the Well is

A bourgeois marital crack-up meets a novelist’s slippery moral arithmetic. A dissatisfied wife, her husband, her lover, and his other lover orbit Seoul with drinks, lies, and near-misses. Hong Sang-soo lays out mating rituals like a deadpan taxonomist, circa mid-90s Korea.

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