A Traveler’s Needs (12A) (Preview) (Borderlines Film Festival)

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Event Description

Director: Hong Sangsoo
Starring: Isabelle Huppert, Lee Hyeyoung, Kwon Haehyo
South Korea, 2024, 1 hour 20 minutes, French/Korean/English + English subtitles

A deliciously mischievous comic turn from Isabelle Huppert as Iris who has set up as a French language teacher in Korea using her own rather baffling methods.

Iris has no backstory. We’re introduced to her through a couple of her bizarre but relaxed teaching sessions in which, with complete self-assurance, she converses with her pupils (in English!).

Punctured with small cultural incongruities, including Iris’s partiality for makkeolli, a potent Korean milky rice wine, we pick up more detail but resolve nothing. This is South Korea’s super-orolific director Hong Sangsoo’s third collaboration with Huppert and perhaps the most delightful in its gentle, oblique humour that touches on language, poetry, exile and the art of communication.

Preview courtesy of Finecut Co. Ltd

Show times

*Film starts at advertised time*
Tuesday 4th March at 6pm
Tuesday 11th March at 4.45pm
Venue: Cinema

Tuesday 4 March 2025

6:00pm

Malvern Theatres

Location

Malvern Theatres

WR14 3HB

01684 892277

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