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Bin-jip (3-Iron)

2004

Kim Ki-duk

Lee Seung-yeon, Jae Hee, Kwon Hyuk-ho, Joo Jin-mo ...

7.7

32,714

Drama. Romance 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.

	Author	Review
United States	A. O. Scott The New York Times	"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"	POS
United Kingdom	Jamie Woolley BBC	"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)"	POS
United States	Michael O'Sullivan The Washington Post	"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."	POS
United States	Ruthe Stein SFGATE	"'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"	POS
United States	Owen Gleiberman Entertainment Weekly	"[It] is like a Raymond Carver story that slowly, inexorably takes on the dimensions of a ghostly fairy tale"	POS
United States	Scott Tobias AV Club	"The film floats along gracefully and assuredly without forcing the issue, and its seeming effortlessness results in an oddly transcendent experience"	POS
United Kingdom	Mark Kermode The Guardian	"An intoxicating love story with its heart in the right place, its head in the clouds and one foot playfully in the grave."	POS
United Kingdom	William Thomas Empire	"A compelling, if obscure, experience with evocative scene-setting and dreamy atmosphere (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	POS

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