Hotel by the River

Streaming video - 2018

An aging poet, Younghwan, summons his two estranged sons to a solitary hotel beside the Han River because he feels his death is near. While waiting for them to arrive, he meets two women out walking in the new-fallen snow and is struck by their angelic beauty. But the women have come to the hotel to do some healing of their own. As Younghwan moves between the women and his bickering sons, he also moves between his two minds: one that walks on the street and the other that communes with the eternal. Winner of Best Actor at the **Locarno International Film Festival**. Official Selection at the **Toronto International Film Festival**. *"One of Hong's most unexpectedly poignant works, self-reflexive in a way that feels searching rathe...r than rote." - Ben Kenigsberg, **The New York Times*** more