What Does That Nature Say To You
Dir: Hong Sangsoo, South Korea, 2025, 108 min, Cert: 18 (CTBA)
Mon 28 July // 20:00
Tickets: £6
This is the first time we’re screening a film by Hong Sangsoo, a director we’ve long admired. His work rarely gets UK distribution, and we’re excited to share this quietly comic gem with a Bristol audience.
Donghwa, a thirty-something poet, drops his girlfriend Junhee home and lingers to admire her family's house. What starts as a quick goodbye stretches into an unexpected day of awkward hospitality—homemade chicken stew, a temple visit, and one too many drinks later, Donghwa’s charm begins to unravel.
A quiet comedy of discomfort, simmering tensions, and soft missteps, What Does the Nature Say? offers a gently funny, deceptively simple window into the rhythms of relationships and regret.
Hong Sangsoo is one of contemporary cinema’s most distinctive voices. With playful, compact stories and a style that embraces repetition, sudden zooms, and philosophical digressions, his films feel both slight and rich—each one part of a larger, evolving whole. Often focused on artists, lovers, and the blurry line between fiction and life, his work is acclaimed internationally but still underseen in UK cinemas.
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