Hong Sang-soo turns personal scandal on its head in `On the Beach at Night Alone`
(LA Times Dodgers)

Near the end of `On the Beach at Night Alone,` a prickly, fascinating new film from the South Korean writer-director Hong Sang-soo, a well-liquored character notes, `Personal stories are boring.` Her statement could be read two ways, either as a late attempt to preempt criticism of this intensely...