With its title referencing not just the many scenes of one-on-one dialogue, but also something hidden in plain sight, prolific writer/director Hong Sangsoo’s latest seems, with its unspoken secrets and its film-world metacommentary, to be typical of his œuvre, even as it gently subverts many of his characteristic tropes. For here, in a bar pointedly named ‘Novel’, the characters drink Chinese liquor rather than the usual soju, and the film’s grave themes are lightened by Sangok’s life-affirming laughter. 

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