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Old Partner
Directed by
Lee Chung-ryoul
2008
78m
Documentary
7.5
92%
85%
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An elderly farmer lives out his final days with his wife and a loyal ox in the Korean countryside.
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Cast of Old Partner
Won-gyoon Choi
Herself
Sam-soon Lee
Herself
Lee Chung-ryoul
Director / Writer
Goh Young-jae
Producer
Old Partner Ratings & Reviews
Film Journal International
Maria Garcia
South Korean documentary-narrative hybrid centers on an aging couple and their ox.
Film.com
Jonathan F. Richards
Even at a modest 78 minutes, there's a little too much slowness and repetitiveness to this off-beat documentary. But then, how fast can you expect a 40-year-old ox to move?
Seattle Times
Jeff Shannon
Old Partner may strike some as sentimental and repetitious, but it's only because Lee has matched his style to the material.
Boxoffice Magazine
Ed Scheid
An unexpectedly absorbing look at determination in a vanishing way of life.
New York Post
V.A. Musetto
Too bad there isn't an Oscar for best performance by a beast of burden.
AV Club
Scott Tobias
Old Partner isn't entirely the story of man and ox shuffling off into the sunset together. It's also the story of poverty, sacrifice, physical agony, and very real emotional tumult.
NYC Movie Guru
Avi Offer
Poignant, well-shot and haunting, albeit somewhat repetitive at times.
Village Voice
Nick Pinkerton
One does leave with a rarely vivid sense of the grind of time, in work and marriage.
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Louis Proyect
An outstanding documentary about a kind of farming that is disappearing everywhere, leaving in its wake in this particular instance the bonds between an elderly man and his prized ox, the "old partner" of the title.
Slant Magazine
Andrew Schenker
The film's unrelenting presentation of raw misery not only shortchanges the fullness of the subjects' experience, but with its hovering, pitch-perfect camera-eye, feels dangerously like an invasion.
DVDTalk.com
Jason Bailey
It's moving--more moving, really, than a documentary about an ox has any right to be.
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