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The Isle
2000 90m Not Rated
Drama
,
Thriller
6.9
78%
73%
70%
Play
Working at a fishing resort in an idyllic location, but surrounded by various facets of human unpleasantness, a young mute woman falls in love with a man on the run from the law for committing murder.
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Directed By
Kim Ki-duk
Written By
Kim Ki-duk
Studio
Myung Films
,
CJ Entertainment
Cast of The Isle
Kim Yu-seok
Hyun-shik
Suh Jung
Hee-jin
Seo Won
Eun-ah
Son Min-seok
Dal-soo
Cho Jae-hyun
Mang-chee
Jang Hang-seon
Middle-aged Man
Han Ji-Sun
Jeong-ah
Kang Jeong-sik
40-Year-old Fisherman
Choi Hye-kyeong
Young Lady #1
Jeon Seon-hwa
Young Lady #2
Yoon Hee-won
Fisherman #1
No Jin-won
Fisherman #2
Yang Young-Jo
Detective #1
Woo Seung-yeup
Detective #2
Choe Min
Dae-hwan
The Isle Reviews
New York Times
Stephen Holden
As gory as the scenes of torture and self-mutilation may be, they are pitted against shimmering cinematography that lends the setting the ethereal beauty of an Asian landscape painting.
San Jose Mercury News
Glenn Lovell
There is little question that this is a serious work by an important director who has something new to say about how, in the flip-flop of courtship, we often reel in when we should be playing out.
New York Post
V.A. Musetto
Daring, mesmerizing and exceedingly hard to forget.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
Beautiful, angry and sad, with a curious sick poetry, as if the Marquis de Sade had gone in for pastel landscapes.
Newsday
Jan Stuart
Once [Kim] begins to overplay the shock tactics and bait-and-tackle metaphors, you may decide it's too high a price to pay for a shimmering picture postcard.
San Francisco Chronicle
Carla Meyer
A gorgeous and grotesque Korean film by director Kim Ki-Duk, who seems torn by his artistic and exploitive impulses.
Lessons of Darkness
Nick Schager
A creepy, gruesome, gorgeous and flabbergasting treatise on romantic obsession and violent, nasty male-female relationships.
Slant Magazine
Ed Gonzalez
While The Isle is both preposterous and thoroughly misogynistic, its vistas are incredibly beautiful to look at.
Washington Post
Mark Jenkins
Spring, Summer fans should only have their appreciation of that film expanded by seeing this rougher take on similar themes.
AV Club
Scott Tobias
A potent allegorical love story.
Village Voice
Michael Atkinson
I don't think I've been as entranced and appalled by an Asian film since Shinya Tsukamoto's Iron Man.
Reeling Reviews
Robin Clifford
If you can get past the fantastical aspects and harsh realities of "The Isle" you'll get a sock-you-in-the-eye flick that is a visual tour-de-force and a story that is unlike any you will likely see anywhere else.
Film Threat
Rich Cline
The evocative imagery and gentle, lapping rhythms of this film are infectious -- it gets under our skin and draws us in long before the plot kicks into gear.
Boxoffice Magazine
Ed Scheid
A continually fascinating exploration of the physical and psychological pain and pleasure of a bizarre relationship.
Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Dennis Schwartz
Sushi for the connoisseurs of the macabre.
Reeling Reviews
Laura Clifford
Ki-duk Kim has created a provocatively violent and sexual film with an oddly idyllic sensibility. It's a mysterious but ultimately rewarding experience.
San Francisco Examiner
Joe Leydon
The vivid lead performances sustain interest and empathy, but the journey is far more interesting than the final destination.
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Joshua Tanzer
Made me unintentionally famous - as the queasy-stomached critic who staggered from the theater and blacked out in the lobby. But believe it or not, it's one of the most beautiful, evocative works I've seen.
Movie Gazette
Anton Bitel
If you have a strong stomach, then this deceptively calm tale of self-imposed isolation, extreme emotions and fishing will quickly reel you in, and leave its hooks in you long after you escape the cinema.
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