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NYFF 2014: ‘Hill of Freedom’ hysterical and wickedly intelligent in its depiction of everyday stupidity

For those unfamiliar with the work of South Korean auteur Hong Sang-soo, his movies typically go something like this: some demotic people get together and drink a lot, and they talk about their menial lives and discuss the profundities of nothing in particular, and in between those moments nothing happens. Sometimes there’s a dog. And it’s hysterical.

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