Friday, April 23, 2010

The Isle

Korea

Nifty little oddball piece done as a black comedy. A mysterious woman runs and services a bunch of floating fishing shacks in a scenic lake. A suicidal former policeman comes to stay and the film traces their tangled, Klingon-like courtship.

Some fairly gruesome scenes, some broadly-played comic stuff, some pretty explicit sex for an Asian film. Several scenes depicted actual cruelty to animals...a no-no in modern films.

For whatever reason this one tickled me the first time I saw it and this time too. One of a kind.

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