Claire, a Parisian music teacher who has travelled to Cannes with a friend to attend a screening of the latter's film, has a chance encounter with So at a café.

Man-hee brings Claire back to the apartment hotel she is staying at with her co-workers, where they share a meal prepared by her roommate.

[4][5] Claire's Camera had its world premiere in the Special Screening section of the Cannes Film Festival on 21 May 2017.

[6][7] The film was released theatrically in France on 7 March 2018 by Jour2Fête and in South Korean on 25 April 2018 by Contents Panda.

The website's critics consensus reads, "Claire's Camera adds another deceptively unassuming entry to writer-director Hong Sang-soo's oeuvre – one whose lingering impact belies its brief length.

"[14] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 80 out of 100, based on 15 critics, indicating "generally favorable" reviews.