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July 13 2007, Newyork Times
They’re All Through With Love, Yet Searching for More
. . . . . “Time” has been described as a comedy about the hollowness of relationships in a global consumerist culture, and it certainly is. The film’s three lead performances, by Mr. Ha as Ji-woo and by Ms. Seong and Ms. Park as the two incarnations of his lover, are fearlessly honest, so attuned to contemporary anxieties about sex, love and social status that the characters’ unhappiness is as squirm-inducing as the movie’s close-ups of sliced flesh . . . . .
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July 13 2007, Film Journal
Review : Time
. . . . . Ha manages to be very appealing and sexy in his doltish, semi-sad-sack role, but the film really belongs to Park, whose placidly perfect, lovely face conceals a veritable volcano of emotion. The actress Sandra Oh once humorously described to me a traditionally known, particular concept of Korean female rage, which she tapped into for her scenes in Sideways. Park’s performance here is as graphic a depiction of that ultimate terror as can be imagined.
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July 13 2007, FILM-FORWARD.COM
Review : Time
. . . . . No matter how fantastical the plot, Kim Ki-duk’s direction remains lucid. (Even Ji-woo has a hard time not confusing Seh-hee with See-hee.) If his film does go into a delirious and sometimes savagely funny warp in the last section, it’s a great wonder that the actors can keep such tricky material afloat. Ha Jung-woo comes off extremely realistic as the typically nagged boyfriend early on and then subtly brokenhearted later, and the actresses come off equally well-rounded as the paranoid girlfriend and the calmly crazy lover.
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June 26 2006, Screen daily
Review : Time
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Film director Kim Ki-duk has been one of the most talked about film directors in Korea. He is referred to as a ‘hot potato’ or ‘outsider,’ of Korean cinema, while he is also described as an art-house or a leading Korean film director by others. On today’s Cinema Spotlight, we’ll learn about this controversial film director and his works.
Last May, a small and good-natured Asian filmmaker from Korea stole the limelight of the Cannes Film Festival. Can you guess whom I am referring to? Yes, that’s right, it was director Kim Ki-duk! He was invited to the renowned international film festival to compete with his 11th film ‘Breath’! In fact, Kim’s works has been more popular abroad than in Korea. So what makes international audiences and critics pay greater attention to his work?
Mar 9 2007, KOFIC news
Darcy Paquet (KOFIC)
The Oporto International Film Festival, better known as Fantasporto, presented two awards to Korean cinema in its closing ceremony on March 3.
BONG Joon-ho’s acclaimed third feature The Host screened in the festival’s main Official Fantasy competition section and was presented with an award for Best Director. The winner of this section was Pan’s Labyrinth by Mexican director Guillermo del Toro.
Meanwhile, in the 17th Director’s Week section, young actor HA Jung-woo won Best Actor for his leading role in KIM Ki-duk’s thirteenth film Time. HA, who is seen as a key up-and-coming actor for his talent and his English abilities, also appears in KIM’s next film Breath, currently in post-production.
HA is the fourth Korean actor to receive an award at Fantasporto, following SUH Jung in The Isle in 2001, JANG Jin-young in Sorum in 2003, and LIM Soo-jung in A Tale of Two Sisters in 2004.
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