Walk Up
critic Reviews
, 97% Fresh Tomatometer Score- A nuanced rendering of human existence and artistic complexities, Walk Up stands as one of the most poignant and perplexing films in Hong Sang-soo's oeuvre.
- , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreAlexandra Heller-NicholasAWFJ.org
Walk Up is a formally cheeky, confident film from one of contemporary cinema’s true masters.
Read full article - , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreJustin ChangLos Angeles Times
“Walk Up” flows as absorbingly as a dream and is no less pleasurable to puzzle over afterward.
Read full article - , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreAustin ConsidineNew York Times
Like many great artists, Hong appears in some ways to be trying to tell the same story over and over, each new film an attempt to solve the same essential riddle about what makes us tick. Just as well.
Read full article - , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreWeiting LiuLittle White Lies
Without leaving his comfort zone, Hong expands the margins of his repertoire just a little bit more in this film anchored by a new theme of an artist’s incompatibility with domesticity.
Read full article - , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreChuck BowenSlant Magazine
With each new film, Hong Sang-soo’s work becomes more subtextual, more fraught, even funnier.
Read full article - , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreJessica KiangVariety
Rarely is professional, romantic, familial, creative and existential angst delivered with such a light heart.
Read full article - , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreSergi SánchezFotogramas
Walk Up is about the lives we haven't lived and the ones we still have yet left to live with the hope there'll always be someone willing to imagine them. [Full review in Spanish]
Read full article - , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreKathy FennessyVideo Librarian Magazine
In Korean, Tab translates as “top,” a play on the word “tower,” and Hong uses the title building well, with each floor representing a different stage in Byung-soo 's life. If he intended the film as a self-portrait, though, it's not a very flattering one.
Read full article - , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreCarlota MoseguiCinemanía (Spain)
Walk Up is built from repetition and a difference in the conversational sequences of its honest characters, creating a sensation of temporary stillness. [Full review in Spanish]
Read full article - , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreJillian ChilingerianOffscreen With Jillian
Hong Sang-soo takes a simple premise, and uses it to experiment with storytelling asking his audience to immerse themselves in a rewarding ending.
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