The Isle
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DVD Details
- Rated: Unrated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 29 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: May 20, 2003
- Originally Released: 2000
- Label: First Run Features
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Jae-Hyun Cho | |
Performer: | Hang-Seon Jang, Suh Jung, Seong-Hee Park & Yoosuk Kim | |
Directed by | Kim Ki-duk | |
Screenwriting by | Kim Ki-duk |
Entertainment Reviews:
study of isolated characters & marginalised experiences takes for its focus an extreme sadomasochistic relationship (modulated through the imagery of fishing), & finds ways to make its characters' fugitive desires become part of the watery landscape.
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Projected Figures
Rating: 3/4 --
There is little question that this is a serious work by an important director who has something new to say about how, in the flip-flop of courtship, we often reel in when we should be playing out.
San Jose Mercury News
The film shimmers on the surface -- it's as visually pleasing as SPRING, SUMMER...
Uncut
Spring, Summer fans should only have their appreciation of that film expanded by seeing this rougher take on similar themes.
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Washington Post
Rating: A- --
In the (genius) Coen Brother's film The Big Lebowski, Julianne Moore's character Maude is an avant garde artist who describes her painting as "strongly vaginal." Until The Isle, I thought that was simply a funny joke...
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Film Scouts
Rating: C+ --
Sushi for the connoisseurs of the macabre.
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Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Rating: 2/4 --
Once [Kim] begins to overplay the shock tactics and bait-and-tackle metaphors, you may decide it's too high a price to pay for a shimmering picture postcard.
Newsday
Product Description:
The eerily beautiful photography and melodic musical score of THE ISLE stand in odd contrast to the brutal horror story it tells. On the serene surface of a secluded bay float a series of candy-colored fishing houses, rented to men who seek an escape. The owner and operator of the village is a mute woman with a row boat who delivers her guests to their floating rooms, and sells them bait, food, coffee, prostitutes, and occasionally her own body. The men mistreat her, and her wounded spirit haunts the lake. At first subtle and secretive, but increasingly more bold and direct, the mute woman enacts unexpected violence upon the men. For example, when one client is leaning out over the dock to defecate into the lake, she swims up behind him, pulls him under the water, and stabs him. The blurred, partially submerged camerawork suggests that the woman is disembodied while committing these acts, as if unrealized hatred is surfacing within her to inspire her actions. Real trouble arrives in the form of a man who is hiding out from the law. He rents the yellow fishing house closest to shore and contemplates suicide. A sadomasochistic chemistry develops between this unhappy man and the mute woman and their relationship facilitates a series of extremely violent sex and mutilation scenes which ultimately bring THE ISLE to its disturbing conclusion.
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Product Info
- UPC: 720229910637
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