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Isabelle Huppert on Her Unique Partnership With ‘A Traveler’s Needs’ Director, Korea’s Hong Sang-soo: ‘I Hope It Goes on Forever’
French actor Isabelle Huppert says that after three films with Hong Sang-soo the Korean director is still able to surprise her.
Hong’s “A Traveler’s Needs,” which premieres this week in competition at the Berlin Film Festival, is the third time that Huppert has starred in one of his unique pieces of minimalist cinema. Huppert plays a footloose and intense French woman at large in Korea and vaguely making ends meet as an untrained language tutor with eccentric methods. He asked me if I wanted to be in it, and I said ‘Yeah.’” Shortly after, they began shooting 2012’s “In Another Country” in a seaside town in Korea, on the basis of a couple of pages of background notes.
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