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Original name: Yeohaengjaui Pilyo
English name: A Traveler's Needs
Year: 2024
Run time: 91 minutes
Language: Korean, French, English
Type (Colour/ Black & white): Colour
Country: South Korea
Director: Hong Sangsoo
Producers: Hong Sangsoo
Cast: Isabelle Huppert, Lee Hyeyoung, Kwon Haehyo
Screenplay: Hong Sangsoo
Cinematographer: Hong Sangsoo
Editor: Hong Sangsoo
Sound Designer: Yujin Seo
Music Composer: Hong Sangsoo
Production Company: Jeonwonsa Film Co.
World Sales: Finecut
Born in Seoul, South Korea in 1960, he studied at the city’s Chung-Ang University, at the California College of Arts and Crafts and at the Art Institute of Chicago. Since 1996, he has written and directed more than 30 feature films as well as several shorts.
Nobody knows where the woman comes from. She is sitting on a park bench and diligently playing a child’s recorder. She says she is from France. With no money or means of supporting herself, she has been advised to teach French. This is how she came to have two Korean women as her pupils. The woman likes to walk barefoot and to lie down on rocks. And when she is feeling up to it, she tries to see each instant in a non-verbal way and to live life as rationally as she can. But things remain as hard as ever. She relies on the Korean alcoholic drink of makgeolli to provide a bit of comfort every day.
