Cinema Guild has officially announced that it will release on Blu-ray Korean director Hong Sang-soo's latest film Hotel by the River (2018), starring Ju-bong Gi, Seon-mi Song, Kim Min-hee, Hae-hyo Kwon, and Joon-sang Yoo. The release will be available for purchase on November 26.
Synopsis: An aging poet, Younghwan (Ki Joobong), summons his two estranged sons (Kwon Haehyo and Yu Junsang) 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 (Kim Minhee and Song Seonmi) 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.
Shooting in gauzy black-and-white with a strikingly untethered hand-held camera, Korean master Hong Sangsoo interweaves the various dramas of his characters in a quiet, straightforward way. But small coincidences and privileged moments combine to create a powerful meditation on family and death, one of the most affecting films in Hong's oeuvre.
Special Features:
Theatrical Trailers
Booklet featuring an essay by writer Kristen Yoonsoo Kim