Vegetarian (2009)
- Original title
- 채식주의자
- Directed by
- Lim Woo-seong
- Genre
- drama film, erotic film
- Country
- South Korea
- Runtime
- 1h 53m
- Rated
- 19
- Rating
- 4.6 of 10 from 11 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A woman in a rigid South Korean household stops eating meat after a nightmare. Her decision triggers brutal reactions from her family and leads her toward a radical withdrawal from human life.
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What happens
Vegetarian (Korean: 채식주의자) is a 2009 South Korean erotic body horror drama film directed by Lim Woo-Seong based on the 2007 same-titled novel by Han Kang. The film debuted at the 14th Busan International Film Festival on October 8, 2009, and was later released in South Korea on February 18, 2010. In January 2010, it was invited to the World Cinema Narrative Competition at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival. Justin Chang, writing for Variety, said, "Body horror and body art are conjoined in the tastefully kinky" film, which is a "tonally extreme portrait of a woman who swears off meat before retreating into a literally vegetative state". He wrote that the film is "an audacious if borderline risible psychodrama". (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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