Hong Sangsoo’s filmGet upCinema Guild, today’s distributor, confirmed that the movie has been acquired. The movie will premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival next month and will also play in competition at the San Sebastián International Film Festival. Cinema Guild will open the film in theaters next year following its release of Hong’s other 2022 title, The Novelist’s Film.
“With each new film, Hong Sangsoo continues to find new ways to surprise and delight us,”Peter Kelly, president of Cinema Guild. “We can’t wait to see audiences react to Walk Up, a film strikingly original and strikingly Hong.”
InGet up, Sangsoo’s ninth film, Kwon Haehyo plays Byungsoo, a film director who goes with his daughter Jeongsu (Park Miso), an aspiring interior designer, to a building owned by an old friend (Lee Hyeyoung) already established in the design field. She gives them a tour of the property, which includes a restaurant and cooking studio on the first two floors, her office in the basement, a residence on the third floor, and an artist’s studio at the top. They chat and drink until Byungsoo gets a business call. When he returns, it’s the same place, but a different time, and the building owner invites him up to the second floor.
Hong Sangsoo is returning to the interest in architecture that was a key characteristic of his work. This time, the structure is literal. Hong fills the space with everyday details, including art, love and career as he climbs up the floors.
The video is available to viewGet upBelow is the trailer