Yourself and Yours

2016 ‘당신자신과 당신의 것’ Directed by Hong Sang-soo

Painter Youngsoo hears secondhand that his girlfriend, Minjung, has recently had drinks with an unknown man. This leads to a quarrel that seems to end their relationship. The next day, Youngsoo sets out in search of her, at the same time that Minjung—or a woman who looks exactly like her and may or may not be her twin—has a series of encounters with strange men, some of whom claim to have met her before.

Kim Joo-hyuk Lee Yoo-young Kim Eui-sung Kwon Hae-hyo Yu Jun-sang Baek Hyun-jin Gong Min-jeung

Alternative Titles

당신 자신과 당신의 것, Dangsinjasingwa dangsinui geot

drama comedy

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Review by Sean Gilman ★★★★★

This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

There's a moment at the end, after the lovers have been reunited because the man, the first Hongian man to realize this, has decided to see the woman he loves for what she actually is rather than what he imagines she should be, to see her and not an idea, where, freshly in love, they decide to take a brief nap. The camera slides down to look at a lit candle on the floor, perched in a paper cup terrifyingly close to a tall stack of books. A gentle dissolve shows time pass and the camera slides back up to the man as he wakes up, alone. Two decades and more than twenty Hong features, as well as two other…
Review by davidehrlich ★★★★

For those familiar with the films of Hong Sang-soo, there’s really only one thing you need to know: The new one is pretty major, and not just because they drink beer this time instead of the usual soju. For those who haven’t yet been introduced to this singularly idiosyncratic Korean auteur, “Yourself and Yours” is as good a place to start as any.
But first, a quick primer: Hong Sang-soo movies have never been about what happens. Some of them are about what happened, some of them are about what could have happened, and — increasingly — some of them are about the difference between the two. Of course, the joke with Hong is that his movies are pretty much…
Review by Filipe Furtado ★★★★

Funny and sharp. Hong playing around some of his favorite standbys: comedy of male embarrassment, alcohol benders, doubling, imagination and repetition. In some ways feels like a throwback to his late 00s work, it also feels more streamlined than some of his recent work and the focus on mistaken identity gives it a near classical comedy feel.
Review by Paul Hibbard ★★★★½

A mysterious jigsaw puzzle of a film. A woman in a relationship with a controlling man has been spotted other places drinking with other men. Except it may be her identical twin who is looking for love, destined to have her soul match with others. Or it may just be his girlfriend, playing a game of mistaken identity and manipulating anyone who crosses her path.
Hong Sangsoo is devilishly taking pleasure in gaslighting the audience as much as the characters in Yourself and Yours gaslight each other. Film doesn't need to have all the answers, sometimes all it needs to do is identify with real feelings you have experienced. And this film captures all the questions that are present after…
Review by Kristen Yoonsoo Kim ★★★½ 1

i love this 50 First Dates remake
Review by Arthur Tuoto ★★★★

Basicamente o “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” do Hong Sang-soo.
O espontâneo como mote do redescobrimento. O recomeço como o ciclo vicioso dos mesmos hábitos (beber, caminhar, amar), inevitavelmente de um mesmo cinema. Não deixa de reforçar essa ideia onde o trajeto amoroso é mais importante que o seu fim ("Apenas aproveite. Saber das coisas não é tão importante como imaginamos.") e de uma forma inversamente proporcional ao “On the Beach at Night Alone” celebra o encontro como uma força unificadora (os amigos, os amantes).
Review by Michael Sicinski ★★★ 1

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"This is mysterious and fun!"
"Then enjoy it. Knowing is not as important as we think."
In case there are still folks claiming that all of Hong's films are the same, and those folks are somehow still in your life and you haven't slapped them into next Thursday, one sure-fire way to disabuse them of that cockamamie notion is to set them in front of his latest, Yourself and Yours, and then offer nearly any other Hong film as a chaser. The difference is self-evident, and in fact it was this rather significant shift in Hong's modus operandi that initially threw me for a loop. After sitting with Y&Y for about 24 hours, and going back to review some…
Review by Diogo Serafim ★★★★

a particularly charming film on the impossibility of actually knowing the one we love. each person is a world. although it is basically a gathering of most of the archetypes sang-soo has worked in his earlier oeuvre, it feels surprisingly fresh. a funny, laid back and somewhat hopeful hong.
Review by Vadim Rizov ★★★★

"The plot components are the same ones Hong normally works with — drinking, attendant addled confrontations, romantic fumbling, women correctly explaining to various men why they’re idiots — but with new variations, per usual. The fights are way uglier; normally, yelling comes rather pathetically, accompanied by weeping after prolonged drinking, but here they start sober, fast and unpleasant. No one announces they’re a director until halfway through, beer and makgeolli are being consumed instead of soju; most crucially, instead of the usual structure in which two or three parts perform variations on the same scenes in the same order, the repetitions and situations are unmoored from any predictable, linear order. As his most structurally radical film yet, it’s bracingly disorienting and feels like a crucial new evolution in Hong’s work. And it features one of his most characteristically telling lines about perpetually disappointing men: 'I’ve never met a truly impressive man.' True!"
That's the crux of this TIFF write-up.
Review by versetti 1

R.I.P. Kim Joo-hyuk :(
These two actually started dating after filming this and were planning getting married :jordancry:
Review by Gabriel ★★★★½ 4

"Like meeting for the first time."
Potentially nihilistic but ultimately romantic and hopeful. Hong Sang-soo's Certified Copy.
Review by Christian Berger ★★★★ 1

"Drink up, you pathetic men"
Well, that pretty much captures every Hong film.

Recent reviews

Review by Mark ★★½

How many different fantasies of you banging someone other than your wife do we need Hong?
Review by Paul Anthony Johnson ★★★★

"Positively the same dame."
Review by Ruby ★★★★

Easily my favorite Hong! Men are pathetic (per usual), but what a fun time watching her play with them. The mystery feels much more unknowable and surreal than his other work, but I’m perfectly content with not knowing and just enjoying.
Review by Brian Sweeney ★★★★½

“There’s so much we’ll never know. Don’t try to know everything.”
Review by Will Advocaat ★★★½

Simp city....This movie’s pretty fun and quirky with some lovely acting... Overall, it was a nice introduction to Hong Sang Soo...
Review by Lizzie ★★★★

makes me want to go out and drink😭
Review by kevinlater ★★★★

maybe the most entertaining hong movie
Review by Ælias ★★★½

I still really like the film making style of Hong Sang-Soo's movies. The story really didn't do it for me until the very end, but that could just be attributed to me being "distracted" while watching the first half. The ending is very sweet tho. I, too, now want to sit in bed and eat watermelon with a partner.
Review by Paul Hibbard ★★★★½

A mysterious jigsaw puzzle of a film. A woman in a relationship with a controlling man has been spotted other places drinking with other men. Except it may be her identical twin who is looking for love, destined to have her soul match with others. Or it may just be his girlfriend, playing a game of mistaken identity and manipulating anyone who crosses her path.
Hong Sangsoo is devilishly taking pleasure in gaslighting the audience as much as the characters in Yourself and Yours gaslight each other. Film doesn't need to have all the answers, sometimes all it needs to do is identify with real feelings you have experienced. And this film captures all the questions that are present after…
Review by fredzipfel ★★★★

The usual Hong Sang-soo set-up -- film or book people chatting and drinking soju in cafes -- but with the added artsy twist of identity mystification. I think it worked in that it seemed to add some depth, in regards to getting to know someone, and certainly added some freshness.
Review by 𝔡𝔞𝔯𝔠𝔶 ★★★★½

"you men are really pathetic. people are all the same! but men believe we're different. it's why you have such a hard time. drink up, you pathetic men."
all of hong's films, helpfully summarized
Review by audreyrouget ★★★★½

We really can't claim to know anyone and apparently, not even Hong Sang-soo and his cinema. But then, as the film says “Knowing is not as important as we think.” A love letter from Hong to his fans, if you think about it, and possibly a response to his critics, as well.