Justin Chang

Justin Chang says each chapter of South Korean writer-director Hong Sang-soo's new film 'The Woman Who Ran' is funny, moving and absorbing on its own, but he says the film is even more intriguing to think about afterward as you puzzle over how those chapters fit together.

Film critic Justin Chang is not attending the Cannes Film festival, but he's still seeing a lot of films from it. He says "it's been a typically mixed bag of the good, the bad and the sometimes great, but it's also been wonderful to see so many bold, ambitious movies on the big screen — like experiencing a mini-festival of my own."

By curious coincidence, two of the lovelier movies I've seen so far this summer — the family-friendly animated fable Luca and the German art-house fairy tale Undine — tell stories about mythic sea creatures making contact with the human world.