"Are you dreaming?"
The final words spoken in Hong Sang-soo's understated and criminally overlooked motion picture imbue his creation with a final sense of mystery. These words, in particular, have truly stuck with me.
They seem to infuse the previous scenes with even more beauty: In dreams, it feels like, we can reach a heightened sense of reality, more beautiful, more fantastical, more aspirational.
There's something about the question this quiet master leaves us with that makes the previous radiant…
