VIRGIN STRIPPED BARE BY HER BACHELORS

A filmmaker introduces his friend, a well-to-do gallerist, to another friend, a television writer, unwittingly setting the stage for a love triangle. But then, just as the story seems to end, it begins all over again, with new details foregrounded, others changed or removed…

If Hong Sang-soo’s first two features were unconventional, it was with his third that he fully embraced the possibilities of narrative playfulness. Through a dazzling ouroboros of repetitions and variations, Hong picks at the very notion of truth in the entangled mess of human relationships.