Painfully slow and the acting really isn’t that great.
Lots to love but sometimes me and the classics don’t intersect.
I’m reading reviews of this movie and am astounding at how boring the critiques are. Mfers will say “it’s pretty but nothing happens” and actually have the worst possible take on this
film.
If you’ve seen even one other film by Lee Chang-dong you’ll recognize his greatest strength is the ability to have aggressively human emotions (see: not benign) be portrayed with minimal dialogue, and often very little motion. He has no interest in holding your hand through the…