Bin jip
South Korea,
2004, 95 min
Shown in 2005
CREDITS
- dir
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Kim Ki-Duk
- prod
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Kim Ki-Duk
- scr
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Kim Ki-Duk
- cam
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Jang Seung-Beck
- editor
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Kim Ki-Duk
- mus
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Slvian
- cast
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Lee Seung-Yeon, Jae Hee, Kwon Hyuk-Ho
- source
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Sony Pictures Classics, 550 Madison Ave, 8th Floor, New York, NY 10022. FAX: 212-833-7911. EMAIL: tom_bernard@spe.sony.com.
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COMMENTS
Kim Ki-duk in person.
OTHER
Cinema’s bad boy Kim Ki-Duk displays his more sensitive side—alienation, forbidden desire, golf balls as attack weapons—in this nearly silent love story between a young drifter who breaks into houses and the abused married model who joins him along the way. Hot and broody, Tae-Suk steals into vacant homes for fun. No common thief, Tae-Suk merely spends the night and even tidies up before he leaves. When he stumbles into the mansion of lovely, lonely Sun-Hwa and her loudmouthed, golf-obsessed husband, however, Tae-Suk decides to finally take something: Sun-Hwa herself, though she’s more than willing. Bound by unseen ties, Tae-Suk and Sun-Hwa embark on a new life of homebreaking, but Sun-Hwa’s husband has other ideas and will stop at nothing to get her back. Kim, simultaneously vulgar and poetic, is best known for his atypically calm Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring and the disturbingly perverse The Isle. He’s become one of cinema’s must-see directors, and 3-Iron one of the Festival’s most lyrical, controversial and strangest films. A former painter, Kim here offers an almost surreal visual treatise on masculinity and its delusions: a man who loses his shadow for his lover, a grunting guy primally clubbing golf balls toward a statue and not penetrating a thing.
FACTOID #107
Incubus, the only known film made in the Esperanto language (at least the only one starring William Shatner), played the 1966 San Francisco International Film Festival.
