'3-Iron': Words aren't necessary in mysterious love story
by Eleanor Ringel Gillespie

If the TV show "Trading Spaces" were done as a romantic yet inscrutable ghost story, it might look something like "3-Iron," a delicately mysterious and quite lovely movie from Korean master Kim Ki-Duk, who recently gave us "Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter ... and Spring." With their slender, childlike bodies and huge-eyed beauty, the two stars could be figures out of an anime adventure. Yet there's a sweetness, too, that suggests the ethereal sentimentality of a Charlie Chaplin picture. And tucked into the side of the frame, a touch of Johnny Depp's deadpan mystery in 1993's "Benny & Joon." Read the full review

TO SUM UP
Tae-suk is homeless and lives in vacant houses. Sun-hwa was once a beautiful model, but lives under the shadow of her abusive husband, who keeps her imprisoned in their affluent house. Fate brings Tae-suk and Sun-hwa together to face a bizarre new destiny.

FILM FACTS ...
Sony Pictures Classics
'3-Iron'

Director: Ki-duk Kim
Starring: Seung-yeon Lee, Hee Jae, Hyuk-ho Kwon, Jin-mo Ju, Jeong-ho Choi
Run time: 95 minutes
Release date: April 29, 2005
Rating: R for some sexual content.
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The Atlanta Journal-Constitution: B
"Combining the wordless romance of a silent film and the whispery strangeness of something by either of the Davids (Lynch or Cronenberg)."

Austin American-Statesman: 2 of 5 stars
"Kim is a gutsy and deeply original filmmaker. An artful serenity suffuses his work ... yet something dark and often terrible lurks in the corners."


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