Hong Sang-soo, full term ♥ Kim Min-hee and Berlin, but...Out-of-wedlock pregnancy references

Feb 21, 2025

Director Hong Sang-soo attended the 75th Berlin International Film Festival (hereinafter referred to as Berlin Film Festival) press conference without actor Kim Min-hee, who is involved in an affair, to tell the story of the work.

On the 20th (local time), a press conference was held for the official invitation of the 75th Berlin Film Festival's feature competition section 'What Nature Says to You'. Director Hong Sang-soo and actors Ha Sung-guk, Kwon Hae-hyo, Cho Yoon-hee and Kang So-yi attended the scene.

Earlier in January, it was belatedly known that Kim Min-hee was pregnant with director Hong's child. BBS reported on the 19th that it captured the two boarding a flight to Munich, Germany, at Incheon International Airport Terminal 1 to attend the Berlin Film Festival. The released photo showed Kim Min-hee leaving the country with her face covered with sunglasses and a mask, and caught the eye with her full-term D-line.

However, Kim Min-hee, who accompanied Hong to the Berlin Film Festival, was not seen at the press conference. Director Hong had a photo session before the press conference with actors and actresses who appeared in `What Nature Says to You.'

First of all, Kwon Hae-hyo "Many people will know about director Hong's way of working. On the day of filming, only before filming, the contents of the filming amount on that day are checked and prepared through rehearsals. It takes a lot of concentration to make the story that I first checked in the morning mine, and I'm going to work on each other's breathing and things like that through rehearsals and then go into filming."

"All actors have a habit of planning and preparing all the time," he said. "In his work with director Hong, he accepts those things and talks about them with all his heart." So I think it's fun when I see a little bit of freedom that I didn't feel in other work and something that I didn't know at all."

When asked about the movie's budget, director Hong said, `I don't calculate the budget separately. The number of people we need to make a movie is about four (excluding the actors)," he said indirectly referring to Kim Min-hee. Regarding the period of preparation for the film, "It takes about three weeks, and filming takes about seven to eight days."

Meanwhile, director Hong's new work 'What Nature Says to You' was officially invited to the 75th Berlin Film Festival's feature competition section, which opened on the 13th. It was Hong's 16th collaboration with Kim Min-hee, which received the Berlin Film Festival's call for the sixth consecutive year, following 'The Runaway Woman', 'Introduction', 'The Novelist's Film', 'In the Water' and 'The Traveler's Need'. Director Hong won the 70th Silver Bear Award for "The Runaway Woman", the 71st Silver Bear Award for Best Screenplay for "Introduction", and the 72nd Silver Bear Award for "The Novelist's Film". At the 74th Berlin Film Festival held last year, it received the grand prize for the Silver Bear Award for "Need of Travelers", but Kim Min-hee did not attend at the time.

In an invitation to the Berlin Film Festival, executive chairman Tricia Tutles and the two program directors watched your most recent film, loving the language and rhythm of the form that made it happen, and the insights contained in it. We felt that 'What does nature say to you?' was really intuitive about people and the flow between them. At the same time, it was acrimonious, humorous and funny at many moments. I really congratulate you on this movie."

'What Does Nature Say to You' is a work in which Ha Sung-guk, Kwon Hae-hyo, and Cho Yoon-hee, who have appeared in director Hong's previous works, participated together. The film depicts what happens when a poet in his thirties, Donghwa, accidentally visits his lover Jun-hee's house.

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Hong Sang-soo, full term ♥ Kim Min-hee and Berlin, but...Out-of-wedlock pregnancy references

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