Theme and Variation: Hong Sang-soo’s Right Now, Wrong Then

Right Now, Wrong ThenDirected by Hong Sang-sooOpens June 24
Right Now, Wrong Then continues Hong Sang-soo’s career-long project of reshuffling and doubling romantic entanglements in differing permutations and tones. His last film, 2014’s (sadly undistributed) Hill of Freedom, introduced two significant new disruptions: an affair’s trajectory is revisited through the structure of a pile of letters read in random order after being dropped, and much of the dialogue is in fracture