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A trio of friends ventures to the rocky shores of a large island to shoot a film together. The director, Seong-mo (Shin Seok-ho), recently gave up acting and has decided to make a film with his own money. His former classmate, Sang-guk (Ha Seong-guk), will operate the camera, and Nam-hee (Kim Seung-yun) will act in it. The only problem: Seong-mo hasn’t decided what to make. His most overtly experimental work to date, In Water reveals Hong at the height of his allusory powers. The story is simple: three friends set out to make a film, and then they do it. But with bold formal choices and his signature impulse toward the uncanny, Hong evokes infinite mysteries and hints at whole worlds lurking below the surface of everyday reality. “A gently gorgeous delight . . . suffused with the haziness of a half-forgotten memory” (Thomas Flew, Sight & Sound). Description courtesy of The Cinema Guild. (Dir.: Hong Sangsoo, Korea, 2023, 61 min., DCP, Korean with English subtitles)