
What Does That Nature Say to You
The season’s best romantic comedy has finally landed stateside, although it’s been making the rounds on the festival circuit for a year now. Fortunately, it was well worth the wait: Hong Sang-soo’s 33rd feature and his funniest ensemble of the decade so far, What Does That Nature Say to You, takes some of the genre’s most familiar tropes and gives them the sort of spin only Hong could pull off. (Who else could make a straightforward narrative feel so fresh without any of the typical experimentation or structural mold-breaking?) We find ourselves in the car with Donghwa (Ha Seong-guk) and his girlfriend, Jun-hee (Kang So-yi), parked outside her parents’ house following a drive in from Seoul. After watching Jun-hee’s mom (Cho Yun-hee) drive off, Donghwa is tempted to take a look at the place – a beautiful mountainside home custom-designed







