100
Christian Science Monitor by David Sterritt
Quiet, mysterious, sometimes violent, ultimately close to sublime.
3-Iron (빈집)
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- South Korea,
- Japan
- 2004
- · 88m
Director
Kim Ki-duk
Cast
Lee Seung-yeon,
Jae Hee,
Kwon Hyuk-ho,
Choi Jeong-ho,
Lee Mi-suk,
Lee Ju-seok
Genre
Crime,
Drama,
Romance
A young man, whose only possession is his motorcycle, spends his time riding around the city looking for empty apartments. After finding one, he hangs out for a while, fixes himself something to eat, and completes housework. In one ostensibly empty mansion, he meets the abused wife of a rich man, who will give his life new direction.
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What are critics saying?
90
Los Angeles Times by Kevin Thomas
Alternately witty, caustic, tender and endlessly imaginative and unpredictable.
90
The New Republic by Stanley Kauffmann
The insinuating quality of 3-Iron is irresistible.
90
Wall Street Journal by Joe Morgenstern
Despite its cargo of meaning, 3-Iron feels marvelously weightless, like the lovers as they stand on a scale that the hero has fixed.
88
ReelViews by James Berardinelli
This enigmatic and in some ways maddening motion picture has the power to haunt every viewer it reaches.
83
Portland Oregonian by Shawn Levy
Creates a thoroughly curious combination of tension and eroticism.
80
The New York Times by Dana Stevens
A teasing, self-conscious and curiously heartfelt demonstration of his (Mr. Kim) mischievous formal ingenuity.
80
The A.V. Club by Scott Tobias
3-Iron gains its hypnotic power by observing these characters through a slight remove. With total command of his effects, Kim transforms an already peculiar romance into something as otherworldly as a ghost story.
80
Variety by Derek Elley
A rarefied love story, conducted with no dialogue between the principals.
80
Film Threat by Eric Campos
It's a love story without all the verbal hooey and it hits harder than most.
70
TV Guide Magazine by Ken Fox
The almost supernatural turn which Kim's lovely film takes during its final act, however, is totally unexpected, and just one reason why Kim ranks as one of the most justly celebrated talents in contemporary Korean cinema.
70
Village Voice by Ed Park
Taut even when ridiculous, with flashes of comedy, 3-Iron has less to offer than its predecessors, but at minimum it's the playful exhaustion of a formal constraint.
60
The Hollywood Reporter
The result is slightly less interesting and less appealing even as arthouse fare.
30
L.A. Weekly by Scott Foundas
As repellent and repellently opportunistic a piece of work as the various shock-horror provocations (The Isle, The Coast Guard) that helped to launch this worrisome career (Kim Ki-Duk).
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