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Movie Info
Genre(s): Foreign
Written by: Ki-duk Kim
Directed by: Ki-duk Kim
Release Date:
Theatrical: August 23, 2002
DVD: May 20, 2003
Running Time: 85 minutes, Color
Origin: South Korea
Language(s): Korean (with English subtitles)
Summary
RATING: Not Rated
Starring Suh Jung, Yoosuk Kim, Sung-hee Park, Jae Hyun Cho, and Hang-Seon Jang
Set on a remote lake in South Korea, this is the story of a damaged cop and a mute innkeeper.
Also On Metacritic
FILM: 3-Iron Bad Guy Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring Time
Also On The Web: Internet Movie Database
What The Critics Said
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The New York Times Stephen Holden
A movie of extremes, and that goes for its aesthetics. As gory as the scenes of torture and self-mutilation may be, they are pitted against shimmering cinematography that lends the setting the ethereal beauty of an Asian landscape painting.
Read Full Review >Village Voice Michael Atkinson
Kim's movie rocks -- I saw it cold a year ago, and I don't think I've been as entranced and appalled by an Asian film since Shinya Tsukamoto's "Iron Man."
Read Full Review >Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
This is the most gruesome and quease-inducing film you are likely to have seen. You may not even want to read the descriptions in this review. Yet it is also beautiful, angry and sad, with a curious sick poetry, as if the Marquis de Sade had gone in for pastel landscapes.
Read Full Review >The Onion (A.V. Club) Scott Tobias
At once predatory and vulnerable, Jung has a primitive intensity that speaks louder than words, carrying an enigmatic and often maddeningly elusive film that's short on dialogue, rational behavior, and narrative logic.
Read Full Review >Film Threat Rich Cline
The increasingly creepy plot is counter balanced by a genuinely tender romance, which makes the film impossible to categorise, and will no doubt limit it to obscure arthouses and cinephiles who have very strong stomachs. They won't be disappointed.
Read Full Review >Empire Patrick Peters
Sadly, though, all this arthouse exploitation fails to reveal as much about contemporary Korea as, say, "Texas Chainsaw" did about the States.
Read Full Review >Washington Post Mark Jenkins
"Spring, Summer" fans should only have their appreciation of that film expanded by seeing this rougher take on similar themes.
Read Full Review >Chicago Reader J.R. Jones
Notorious on the festival circuit for its excruciating scenes of self-mutilation.
Read Full Review >TV Guide Ken Fox
The film nevertheless exerts a strange sort of power that makes for compelling viewing, even as its images force one to repeatedly look away.
Read Full Review >New York Daily News Elizabeth Weitzman
Eerie, opaque and unblinkingly sadomasochistic.
Read Full Review >Film Threat Eric Campos
It’s just too bad that not a single likeable character resides within. After seeing this one, you’ll want to chew on a case of Zoloft.
Read Full Review >Christian Science Monitor David Sterritt
South Korean melodrama uses a unique location, dominated by fishermen's floating huts, as the background for an overheated story that grows steadily more grotesque and unpleasant as it proceeds.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 10.0 (out of 10) based on 4 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Anssi S. gave it a 10:
So beautiful that I couldn't breathe when I watched it. Great!!
