If you loved Virgin Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, try Woman Is the Future of Man

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, tender mood tags, and they sit in Drama / Romance territory. If that's the register that drew you to Virgin Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

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What Woman Is the Future of Man is

The first flakes of winter find two men recalling Seoul’s half-real pasts: one teaches ideas, the other films them poorly after America. They set out together, half-hoping the ghost of one girl still lingers.

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