Should I stand on the red carpet with Kim Min-hee and ♥ Hong Sang-soo..Berlin Film Festival Opens
Feb 13, 2025
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The 75th Berlin International Film Festival will begin its 11-day journey starting with the opening ceremony on the 13th (local time).
Director Hong Sang-soo will enter the competition section with his 33rd feature film 'What Nature Says to You' and debut on the 20th.
'What does nature say to you?' tells the story of a poet in her 30s who goes through a day when she visits her girlfriend's parents' mansion for the first time. Ha Sung-guk, Kwon Hae-hyo, and Cho Yoon-hee appeared. Director Hong's lover Kim Min-hee, who was recently rumored to be pregnant, is said to have participated as a production manager.
Starting with his debut film `The Day a Pig Fell Into the Well' in 1997, director Hong will be showing a total of 12 films at the Berlin Film Festival this year. He has received five awards, from 'Alone on the Beach at Night' in 2017 (Best Actress at Silver Bear) to 'Need of Travelers' last year (for the Silver Bear). Attention is focusing on whether this new work will win the Golden Bear, the highest prize.
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Last month, entertainment media Dispatch reported that "Kim Min-hee is naturally pregnant with Hong Sang-soo's child."I'm going to give birth this spring," he said. According to reports, the two confirmed their pregnancy last summer. In August last year, Kim Min-hee was pregnant when she won the 77th Locarno Film Festival's Best Performance Award for the film `Suyuchun.' He is currently in the late stages of pregnancy.
The two currently live in Hanam, Gyeonggi-do, and Hong Sang-soo is said to have followed pregnancy confirmation, tests, and check-ups regardless of the gaze around him.
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Hong Sang-soo is a married man. She married A, whom she met while studying in the United States in 1985, and has a daughter. He filed for divorce settlement against A in 2016, but it was canceled because A virtually refused to receive related documents. Since then, the divorce lawsuit filed by Hong Sang-soo was dismissed in 2019 following the court's judgment that Hong Sang-soo was mainly responsible for the breakdown of the marriage. It is known that Hong Sang-soo is legally maintaining a marital relationship without appealing this.
Meanwhile, since the scandal, Kim Min-hee has only appeared in Hong Sang-soo's works such as 'After', 'Gangbyeon Hotel', 'The Runaway Woman', 'Our Day', 'The Need of Travelers', and 'Suyucheon'. In addition, the two have not appeared in public in Korea after acknowledging that they were in an affair at the 2017 film 'Alone on the Beach at Night' press, distribution premiere and press conference.
However, he is constantly attending film festivals and events held overseas, and attention is being paid to whether the two will attend the 75th Berlin Film Festival and mention pregnancy.
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