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Bin-jip (3-Iron)

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Original title

Bin-jip (3-Iron) aka

AKA

Empty House
3-Iron

Year

2004

Running time

95 min.

Country

South Korea

Director

Kim Ki-duk

Screenwriter

Kim Ki-duk

Music

Slvian

Cinematography

Jang Seung-beck

Cast

Lee Seung-yeon, Hee Jae, Kwon Hyuk-ho, Joo Jin-mo, Choi Jeong-ho, Lee Joo-suk, Lee Mi-sook, Moon Sung-hyuk

Producer

Kim Ki-duk Film

Genre

Drama. Romance | Romantic Drama

Synopsis

A young drifter enters strangers' houses - and lives - while owners are away. He spends a night or a day squatting in, repaying their unwitting hospitality by doing laundry or small repairs. His life changes when he runs into a beautiful woman in an affluent mansion who is ready to escape her unhappy, abusive marriage.

Awards: 2004: David di Donatello Awards: Nominated for Best Foreign Film

2004: Venice Film Festival: Silver Lion (Best Director) & FIPRESCI

2004: Valladolid Film Festival - Seminci: Golden Spike: Best Movie

Critics' reviews

"The movie camera is able to make the impossible look natural and the ordinary seem strange (...) through tricks of composition, perspective and editing. Mr. Kim is a master of such estrangement"

A. O. Scott: The New York Times
"It's actually quite satisfying, in a weird, magical-realism sort of way that manages to disturb and confound as much as it appeases the romantic."

Michael O'Sullivan: The Washington Post
"'3-Iron' is never pretentious and is so beautiful to look at (...) that whether the film makes sense or not becomes irrelevant. The sooner you let yourself go with Kim's flow, the more likely you are to come away satisfied"

Ruthe Stein: SFGATE
"[It] is like a Raymond Carver story that slowly, inexorably takes on the dimensions of a ghostly fairy tale"

Owen Gleiberman: Entertainment Weekly
"The film floats along gracefully and assuredly without forcing the issue, and its seeming effortlessness results in an oddly transcendent experience"

Scott Tobias: AV Club
"If the snail's pace doesn't send you to sleep, you'll be rewarded with a tender and unusual love story (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"

Jamie Woolley: BBC
"An intoxicating love story with its heart in the right place, its head in the clouds and one foot playfully in the grave."

Mark Kermode: The Guardian
"A compelling, if obscure, experience with evocative scene-setting and dreamy atmosphere (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"

William Thomas: Empire

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