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Time
Lifesize Entertainment

Time reviews
Critic Score
Metascore: 73 Metascore out of 100
User Score  
5.0 out of 10
based on 14 reviews
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MPAA RATING: Not Rated

Starring Jung-woo Ha, and Ji-Yeon Park

Attractive Seh-hee is having problems with her boyfriend, Ji-woo. After two years, their love has entered a period of weariness. Though faithful to his fiancée, Ji-woo eyes other women and, in bed, seems to get excited only at the thought of making love to other partners. Seh-hee can't cope with the mounting jealousy tainting her life and decides to dramatically change her look - to become a new woman, with whom her boyfriend can again fall in love. She enters a plastic-surgery clinic and then vanishes for six months - long enough for the scars to heal - leaving Ji-woo hurt and confused by her disappearance. Resurfacing as the new waitress at the coffee shop Ji-woo frequents, Seh-hee - now calling herself See-hee - tries to seduce him. But between them stands the spectre of Ji-woo's lost girlfriend, with whom he is still very much in love. Jealousy once again creeps into the shaky existence Seh-hee has artificially crafted. Director Kim's unpredictable genius takes a fashionable issue to extremes in order to probe the dark, jealous core of a relationship gone wrong. (LifeSize Entertainment)


GENRE(S): Drama  |  Romance  
WRITTEN BY: Ki-duk Kim  
DIRECTED BY: Ki-duk Kim  
RELEASE DATE: Theatrical: July 13, 2007 
RUNNING TIME: 97 minutes, Color 
ORIGIN: Japan / South Korea 
LANGUAGE(S): Korean 

Alternate Title: Shi gan

What The Critics Said

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88
ReelViews James Berardinelli
Haunting and disturbing, Time is the kind of motion picture that gets under your skin and doesn't let go.
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88
Chicago Tribune Michael Phillips
Kim evokes everything from "Seconds" to "Nip/Tuck" here, but his sureness of touch and lack of melodrama make the themes pertinent and vivid. A heartening step up from Kim's previous film, "The Bow."
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88
TV Guide Ken Fox
An uncanny and thoroughly creepy nip-yuck nightmare about plastic surgery and identity.
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83
The Onion (A.V. Club) Noel Murray
Time could almost be written off as misogynistic, except that it's so specific about its rage. It's almost as though Kim was so fed up with having the same argument with his girlfriend, all he could do was make a movie.
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80
Village Voice Mike D'Angelo
Simply put, Time is about the eternal war between infatuation and familiarity, and our irreconcilable need to find both in the same person. In other words, it's a parable about the root of human unhappiness.
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80
The New York Times Matt Zoller Seitz
Mr. Kim flips between soapy melodrama and dry, self-aware comedy. The effect is thrilling and disorienting, like walking on a trampoline.
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80
Salon.com Andrew O'Hehir
I'm not sure yet if Time is a masterwork, a deranged folly or just a showman's highly persuasive trick. Whatever else it is, it's a clean, economical and handsome film, terrifically acted, with a heart full of treachery and mystery.
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75
New York Post V.A. Musetto
Viewers in Gotham will be perplexed, frightened, disgusted - and, mostly, entertained.
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75
Portland Oregonian Stan Hall
It's to the director's credit that despite its characters going off the deep end toward the end of the film, Time maintains its focus, setting up a mind-bending finale.
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63
Boston Globe Ty Burr
Kim is a hard director to pin down. This is the first time the inconsistency has spilled onto the screen, though.
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63
Premiere Glenn Kenny
Time is more than reasonably diverting.
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60
Variety Derek Elley
Script is sometimes confusingly structured, and in its second half doesn't move as smoothly from scene to scene as in Kim's best pics.
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58
Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum
Time, Kim Ki-Duk's pointed commentary on surfaces and consumer fads -- with particular meaning for plastic-surgery-obsessed South Korea -- is as tautly ''pretty'' and inexpressive as the results for those who compulsively seek cosmetic perfection.
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50
The Hollywood Reporter John DeFore
More accessible than some of the filmmaker's more extreme work.
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