The Taste of Money
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  • Summary: In a mansion on the outskirts of Seoul lives one of the richest families in the entire country. Yoon is the president of a powerful conglomerate, but it’s his wife Madame Baek that is really in control. Her personal secretary Young-jak, a handsome young man newly introduced to the world of p power, deals with the families immoral – and frequently illegal – activities, but when scandal threatens the family, Young-jak is torn between his morality and a shortcut to a successful life. This companion piece to The Housemaid is another sexy and controversial erotic thriller from South Korean master Im Sang-soo. [IFC Films]… Expand

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  1. Positive: 3 out of 6
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 6
  3. Negative: 1 out of 6
  1. The Playlist
    Reviewed by: Drew Taylor
    Jan 25, 2013
    83
    A gloriously decadent, gorgeously photographed melodrama – a movie where people burst into tears and act very badly towards each other, all while wearing really fabulous clothes.
  2. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: A.O. Scott
    Jan 24, 2013
    80
    Even as The Taste of Money swerves toward a frantic climax and a sentimental denouement, it remains intriguing. It feeds an insatiable curiosity about how the other half - or, in current parlance, the 1 percent - lives, and what it shows us is gorgeous, grotesque and disconcertingly human.
  3. Slant Magazine
    Reviewed by: Andrew Schenker
    Jan 23, 2013
    50
    For all the revelations about the way the rich operate, there's little juicy pleasure to be had in the proceedings.
  4. Time Out New York
    Reviewed by: Keith Uhlich
    Jan 25, 2013
    20
    Im could care less about these people as characters, presenting them as either obscenely hot or repellently decaying bundles of flesh.

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