Claire's Camera

Masters

""Huppert and Kim are clearly having fun… with seductive energy…""

The Film Stage
  • Archive - Festival 33
  • Director: Hong Sang-soo
  • 2017
  • 68 minutes
  • French, Korean, English
  • Subtitles in Hebrew, English

Set at the Cannes Film Festival, Claire’s Camera was shot there in 2016, when lead actress Kim Min-hee and Isabelle Huppert were presenting The Handmaiden and Elle, respectively.

Kim plays Man-hee, a manager at a film sales company who is abruptly fired by her boss, ostensibly for dishonesty, though her drunken night with a filmmaker attending the festival may have been a factor. Claire (Huppert), a teacher from Paris, walks around La Croisette taking pictures with her polaroid camera. After she approaches Man-hee for a photo, the two form a friendship.

Filmography: Right Now, Wrong Then (2015), Nobody's Daughter Haewon (2013), Hahaha (2010), Woman On The Beach (2006), Woman Is the Future of Man (2004), The Day a Pig Fell Into a Well (1996).


  • Director Hong Sang-soo
  • Production Hong Sangsoo
  • Script Hong Sangsoo
  • Cinematography Lee Jinkeun
  • Editing Hahm Sungwon
  • Music Dalpalan
  • Festivals Cannes
  • Actors Isabelle Huppert, Kim Minhee, Chang Mihee, Jung Jinyoung
  • Source Finecut, Seoul