Hong Sang-Soo's
Oki's Movie is one of his best films as it plays with multiple narrative structures in a way reminiscent of his rarely-seen
A Tale of Cinema. It consists of four segments, each introduced by the same crude credit sequence on a blue background as Elgar's Pomp and Circumstance is repeated, supplying a short pause for reflection between the separate episodes. The four seemingly autonomous tales (as in Rohmer's
Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle) actually build upon each other as the focus subtly shifts from the two male characters' point of view to that of Oki, the woman who narrates the final episode and comes to control events through her voiceover analysis of her simultaneous relationships with the two men, an older film professor and a younger film student. Hong continues to work variations on the same basic themes in all his films but has yet to exhaust the possibilities. Not to mention that his Q&A was hilarious and worthy of an appearance in one of his films.
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