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‘The Isle’ navigates the uncharted, cruel waters of love
Every man — and woman — is an island in Kim Ki-Duk’s 2000 film, The Isle. In the filmmaker’s far-from-idyllic world, appetite is all, primal instincts and desires run amok, isolation is inevitable and the South Korean waterscape is awash with guts, blood and bodily fluids.
This symbolism-drenched art house drama isn’t your mom and pop’s Survivor or even your grandpappy’s Island of Dr. Moreau. Kim gets microscopic and makes do with a few evocative locales, achingly gorgeous cinematography, and some wildly inventive imagery that’s intense enough to set your teeth on autogrind. This is a bell-jar love story as imagined by a biting, subtle surrealist like Max Ernst, complete with scarring scenes reminiscent of that moment in Luis Bunuel’s Un Chien Andalou when a razor blade is dragged across a woman’s eyeball. Simultaneously repellent and seductive, The Isle makes you want to protect your soft body parts, while keeping one eye peeled to find out what happens next.
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Also In Arts & Entertainment
Reel Stories: 'Charlotte Sometimes’ One APA film’s journey On the morning of Dec. 11, Eric Byler was sitting in a hotel room in Hawai‘i — for the Cinema Paradise Film Festival where his debut feature Charlotte Sometimes would screen as the closing night film — when he received the good news. Charlotte Sometimes, a look at four young Asian Pacific American characters as they navigate the waters of sex and modern relationships, had been nominated for two IFP Independent Spirit Awards. One of the film’s stars, Jacqueline Kim, had been nominated for Best Supporting Actress and the film itself was nominated for the John Cassavettes Award, given to “the best feature under $500,000.”
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