'Earning Park Chan-wook the best director prize at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, the film is a spellbinding swirl of romance, passion, and projection, all of it enlivened by beguiling secrets and formal sumptuousness,' writes nschager.
. Co-written by Jeong Seo-kyeong, Park’s script moves at a pace that’s so fast as to be initially unsettling. Yet his images—edited together with hypnotic grace by Kim Sang-bum—are so expressive and suggestive that it's easy to not only keep up with the proceedings’ twists and turns, but to be swept away by the dreamy action.
Hae-joon’s inquiry into the rock-climbing fatality leads him to the deceased’s wife Seo-rae , a Chinese immigrant who speaks in shaky Korean and works as an elderly care nurse. Seo-rae was supposedly with one of her patients on the morning that her husband met his grisly fate, and Hae-joon is willing to believe in her innocence, since he’s immediately smitten by her beauty.
Hae-joon and Soo-wan are simultaneously on the trail of another criminal who, it’s soon revealed, is also in a love triangle, thereby adding to’s overarching mix of hallucinatory romance, sex, and violence. Those elements are all a part of Hae-joon’s growing infatuation with Seo-rae, who’s been abused and branded by her husband , and whom Hae-joon watches eating ice cream for dinner during all-night stakeouts of her home.
Park’s latest is ultimately a saga about leaving—and letting go—as a potential means of securing some measure of solace, and the way such plans don’t always play out as precisely as one might hope.
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