The Isle (2000)

Original title

섬

Directed by

Kim Ki-duk

Genre

drama film, thriller film

Country

South Korea

Runtime

1h 30m

Rated

18A

Rating

6.9 of 10 from 372 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A lonely woman runs a small floating guesthouse on a remote lake. She develops a strange and brutal relationship with a fisherman who has a dark past.

visually drivenrawunsettlingbleakslow-burnunflinchingquietintense

What happens

The Isle (Korean: 섬) is a 2000 South Korean arthouse film written and directed by Kim Ki-duk, his fourth film, and the first to receive wide international acclaim for his now recognizable style. The film has gained notoriety for gruesome scenes that caused some viewers to vomit or faint when the film premiered at the Venice Film Festival. The movie step among range of distinctive movie genres, making it difficult to classify into one solely traditional genre. Spending from psychological drama, romance, thriller, horror and mystery. The Isle stars Suh Jung and Kim Yu-seok as an unlikely couple who develop a love for each other despite their unusual circumstances. Like all of Ki-Duk's other movies it has almost no dialog, relying mostly on its visual storytelling. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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