| Original Score: B+ | Sep 7, 2011

A seductively watchable, mythically resonant experience.

| Nov 30, 2001

A premodern folk tale in a postmodern form that refreshes both the eye and our ideas about storytelling.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 30, 2001

Im's movie approaches a seething, primitivist beauty that evokes Makhmalbaf and parallels the contrapuntal textual investigations of Resnais.

Full Review | Aug 15, 2001

The film is an epic, splendidly colorful love story, albeit one whose ending our jaded Western eyes can spot coming a century (or two) away.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Feb 26, 2001

It's a movie charmingly traditional and richly cinematic, and I'm not damning with faint praise when I say it's the best Korean film I've seen.

Full Review | Feb 26, 2001

Admiration gives way to something like enthrallment. Be patient and you'll see that this picture casts its own peculiar spell.

Full Review | Original Score: B+ | Feb 26, 2001

an act of audacious filmmaking by Im, in the midst of what otherwise could have been a straight-ahead romantic fantasy.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 7, 2001

A landmark film in that it is the first Korean picture to receive regular theatrical release in the U.S., calling attention not only to the world-class talent of Im, but also serving as an introduction to the rich, complex Korean cinema.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Feb 7, 2001

The picture is at its best when the lovers are playing with each other and intoxicated by the newness of their flesh.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Feb 7, 2001

Im Kwon Taek's Chunhyang is a sumptuously staged and photographed romance set in 18th century Korea that's visually striking enough to keep you watching.

| Feb 7, 2001