Title · no scrobbles indexed yet
The Isle (Korean: 섬) is a 2000 South Korean arthouse film written and directed by Kim Ki-duk, his fourth film, and the first to receive wide international acclaim for his now recognizable style. The film has gained notoriety for gruesome scenes that caused some viewers to vomit or faint when the film premiered at the Venice Film Festival. The movie step among range of distinctive movie genres, making it difficult to…
The first scrobble for this title is still propagating, but a community review is already indexed below.
Longform community posts about this title
One of Kim Ki-duk's first major works Uno de los primeros trabajos importantes de Kim Ki-duk If we talk about South Korean cinema, we must talk about Kim Ki-duk, responsible for having written and directed great cinematographic works such as _Time_, _The Bow_, or the best known _Spring Summer Fall Winter and Spring_ and _3-iron_, two of the best films that have been made on the Asian continent. But before all that,…More
No comments yet — be the first.
I'll get this out in the open right now: This film is extremely graphic and you really don't want to watch this if there are kids around. Apparently that is what the director, Kim Ki-duk tries to accomplish in his work. It's not a gore-fest like "Saw" or anything. Its stomach-churning content is far more psychological and realistic. The movie starts out normally enough (it's actually a bit of a slow starter,) with a…More