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The Isle

Seom

2000

Kim Ki-duk

Jung Suh, Kim Yu-seok, Sung-Hee Park, Jang Hang-sun, Cho Jae-yun

6.8

5,715

Drama Working at a fishing resort in an idyllic location, but surrounded by various facets of human unpleasantness, a young mute woman falls in love with a man on the run from the law for committing murder.

	Media	Author	Review
		Stephen Holden The New York Times	"Primal passions, gruesomely rendered (...) The symbolism works on several levels"
		Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"[It is] beautiful, angry and sad, with a curious sick poetry, as if the Marquis de Sade had gone in for pastel landscapes (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"
		J.R. Jones Chicago Reader	"If I had to draw a parallel between Kim and another filmmaker, I'd have to choose Catherine Breillat ('Fat Girl'); both use their dazzling cinematic skills to dignify an utterly juvenile view of men and women."
		Ed Gonzalez Slant	"The film works neither as a parable for crippled male/female relationships nor as a study of isolation and fatal attractions (…) Rating: ★★½ (out of 5)"
		Scott Tobias AV Club	"Kim referees his battle-of-the-sexes with remarkable control over the balance of power between his tempestuous lovers"
		Time Out	"At least it's all framed in striking images, but the ideas are banal"

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