Film critic and Events Chair of the Los Angeles Film Critics Association Ryan Swen joins us to discuss his Hong Sang-soo Deep Cut Pick, Hill of Freedom. Swen has had a huge hand in shaping our Hong series through his ongoing criticism project, Hong Sang-soo Notarized. We all take a look at the non-chronological narrative of Hong’s meditation on misogyny, Japan and Korea, and the unsurprising consequences of drinking too much.

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Timestamps:

00:00:00 Intro

00:01:40 Ryan Swen introduction

00:04:29 Hong Sang Soo Notarized Project

00:12:21 Hill of Freedom introduction and general reactions

00:21:29 Lost (and Found) in translation

00:27:21 Japan and Korea

00:32:53 Narrative structure

00:39:41 Mori and Misogyny 

00:45:47 Hongisms

00:52:57 The ending

01:00:40 Actors

01:03:11 Outro