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Hong Sang-soo’s comedies of manners don’t often elicit chuckles, per se, but they’re not meant to; the prolific Korean filmmaker, now on his thirty-somethingth film, is far more interested in the mirthful smirk.

In one modestly-adorned slice of domestic minimalism after another, Hong plants his cameras firmly on a tripod (stopping only to pan or zoom as absolutely needed) and lets his characters just … talk. And who better to inspire those conversations than Isabelle Huppert, whose European sensibility Hong has already leveraged in two prior pictures: “In Another Country” and “Claire’s Camera.” She’s often a fish-out-of-water in the Seoul-set climes of Hong’s pictures, a mystery to the entranced and bewildered Koreans whose paths she crosses.

And in their latest collaboration, “A Traveler’s Needs,” they find a new, doubly hypnotic rhythm.

Where “In Another Country” positioned Huppert as