Huppert finds which means in unstructured nature of ‘Traveler’s Needs’

French star Isabelle Huppert stated she was drawn to working with South Korean director Hong Sangsoo for a 3rd time in “A Traveler’s Needs,” which premiered in Berlin on Monday, due to the uniquely unstructured nature of his work.

“I did two other films with Hong Sangsoo, and his way of making films is unique,” Huppert instructed journalists forward of the movie’s screening on the Berlin Film Festival, explaining how Hong provides actors their strains simply earlier than taking pictures.

“It might sound, when you say it like this, it might sound like something impossible to master or to control, but it’s the total opposite, actually,” stated Huppert, who beforehand labored with the director on Claire’s Camera and In Another Country.

“He really makes some kind of very philosophical statement about what it means to be alive, what it means to be a human being, what it means to be alone, and what it means to be together,” stated Huppert, who acquired an honorary Golden Bear prize in 2022 for her lifetime achievement as an actor.

A Traveler’s Needs, Hong’s fifth consecutive movie to be chosen for the competition, options Huppert as a French lady in South Korea with an uncommon methodology of educating language and a penchant for ingesting the milky-white rice wine makgeolli.

“This might sound very, very irresponsible, but I don’t know what I am doing,” Hong stated on the Monday press convention.

“I believe in a certain, how can I say, happening between people. Me and Isabelle, me and the weather, me and the places, all these things happen,” Hong stated to clarify his methodology.