Isabelle Huppertjoked that the 13-day shoot of Hong SangsoosA Travelers Needswas a super-production by the Korean filmmakers usual standards.
Huppert was speaking onstage at theNew York Film Festivalwith fest Artistic Director Dennis Lim, aboutA Travelers Needs.
It says so much about what it means to do a film.
Isabelle Huppert attends the 62nd New York Film Festival - “A Traveler’s Needs” at Furman GalleryJamie McCarthy/Getty Images for FLC
It tells you how the cinema is flexible.
It goes from the infinitely big I was inHeavens Gate, for example and it can be infinitely small.
But its not because you dont have much that you dont have enough.
And thats really what you experience on a movie directed by Hong Sangsoo.
The whole thing is really a reflection about money and time.
InA Travelers Needs, Huppert plays a French woman traveling through Korea and making money by teaching French.
Assembling her wardrobe that way contributed to the mood of travel that permeates the film, Huppert said.
a bit curious, a bit naive.
What it means to be in a different world.
Different and not so different, because at some point everybodys different but everybodys the same.
Cinema GuildacquiredA Travelers Needslast spring and will release it in the U.S. later this year.
