Pushes its experiment and imagination too far. 3/10.
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Man in Hanbok
Feature · 2026 · 1 hr 6 min · Lee Sang-hoon, Box Media, Blue Film Works
Taking up the theory that the Asian man in a Rubens drawing is the Joseon inventor Jang Yeong-sil, who vanishes from the records in 1442, the film imagines his journey to Renaissance Europe. Made with generative AI from script to image, adapted by the director from his own novel. Korean title 한복 입은 남자.
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The close-ups are still awkward and hard to sit through. 4/10.
Read the full reviewWorth watching as a measure of where generative-AI filmmaking stands and where it may go. 6/10.
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