Claire's Camera

Claire's Camera (La Caméra de Claire, 2018) — watch online on iFILM — is a French-Korean drama directed by Hong Sang-soo, shot on location during the actual Cannes Film Festival. Manhee, a Korean sales rep for a film company, is fired without warning by her boss — a director with whom she's been having an affair. Wandering the beach, she meets Claire, a French schoolteacher played by Isabelle Huppert, who photographs everyone she encounters with a Polaroid.

Claire believes a photo changes a person, lets them see themselves differently. Hong Sang-soo shot the whole film in a few days with almost no crew. The result is brief, oblique, and unhurried — two women at the edge of the festival world, trying to make sense of things by looking at them closely. Stream Claire's Camera (2018) online on iFILM.