Lee Hacken was the definite winner of several music award contests in 2003 & on top of that honored
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The premise of Hong Sang Soos latest film Ha Ha Ha will feel familiar to any follower of the Korean auteur: a movie critic (Yoo Joon Sang) & an aspiring director (Kim Sang Kyung) reminisce about a summer trip over rice wine, gradually revealing that their memories & encounters intertwine. Like in any Hong film, the neurotic heroes wander, womanize, & drink & talk too much. However, theres more humor & less cynicism to the heroes misadventures than in the directors previous works, making Ha Ha Ha
- the winner of the top prize at the 2010 Cannes Film Festivals Un Certain Regard section
- one of the few pure comedies in Hongs filmography. On the surface, the films title may refer to the Korean word for summer, "e; Ha"e;, but it also stands for the sound of laughter that will come from the audience of Hong Sang Soos lightest & most purely enjoyable work yet.