Claire’s Camera
A light, sunny divertissement shot on the fly during the Cannes Film Festival, by South-Korean director Hong Sang-soo (In Another Country).
Please note that this film is in Korean, English and French, with Dutch subtitles.
Set far from the festival’s red-carpet pomp, CLAIRE’S CAMERA is a cautionary tale about mixing business with pleasure. A sales agent is fired mid-festival for her ‘dishonesty’, which turns out to be code for sleeping with a director who’s also involved with her boss. The revelations emerge with the help of a French tourist named Claire (Isabelle Huppert), a detective of sorts who helps others see their situations more clearly. Kim Min-hee and Isabelle Huppert make for a delightful pair amid the kind of cross-cultural comedy that also defined Hong’s Huppert-starring IN ANOTHER COUNTRY (2012).
Hong Sang-soo, South Korea, France, 2017, 69 min. French spoken, Dutch subtitles.
With Isabelle Huppert, Kim Min-hee, Chang Mi-hee, Jung Jin-Young, Heesun Yoon.