Ahreum sits in a small café, typing on her laptop. Around her, customers enact various dramas from their lives. Is she writing what she hears or is she hearing what's been written?
Writing
Script blurs observer and observed until you're dizzy.
Acting
Kim Min-hee's micro-expressions do ALL the heavy lifting.
Director
Hong Sang-soo
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot in one Seoul café during a real cold wave; cast and crew kept coats on. Hong's notorious for shooting fast, cheap, and during actual weather events.
The title 'Grass' references a Walt Whitman poem about observing humanity—Hong's been reading American lit between soju bottles again.
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