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cinej-326	Hovind, Jacob	“About Miracles”: Seeing the “real thing” in Hong Sang-soo’s Woman on the Beach and Éric Rohmer’s Le Rayon vert	2021	46	.pdf	application/pdf	15493	547	61	And if Hong’s mis-seeing men and all their over-intellectualized avoidance of reality consistently mark his CINEJ Cinema Journal: “About Miracles”: Seeing the “real thing” in Hong Sang-soo and Éric Rohmer Volume 9.1 (2021) | ISSN 2158-8724 (online) | DOI 10.5195/cinej.2021.326 | http://cinej.pitt.edu 249 cinema’s affinity to that of Éric Rohmer’s, that Hong indeed might be the twenty-first century’s great moralist filmmaker taking on the mantle of the French master’s project, then in learning how to approach what one of its characters repeatedly calls “the real thing,” Woman on the Beach looks back to Le Rayon vert (1986) specifically; while Hong’s men are consistently left trapped more or less in their own heads, then Woman on the Beach imagines a woman, like Rohmer’s Delphine before her, who learns instead to gaze out to sea, getting a glimpse of something real. Hong Sang-soo’s ethical games with reality From his feature debut, The Day the Pig Fell into a Well (1996) and its oblique narrative strategy of switching from one character’s seemingly isolated plot to another until their relations only gradually become clear, to his most recent exercise in Cézanne-like cinematic cubism, The Woman Who Ran (2020), Hong has gained a reputation as one of contemporary cinema’s great structuralists and puzzle-makers.	cache/cinej-326.pdf	txt/cinej-326.txt