Fresh
A seductively watchable, mythically resonant experience.
Geoff Pevere, Toronto Star
Chunhyang
Her spirit became inspiration, Her name became legend.
2000 · 2h 16m · R
Drama, Romance
Directed by
Im Kwon-taek
Overview
Once at a pagoda Mongryong Lee, a scion of a well-to-do family, meets Chunhyang, the young daughter of a courtesan and an aristocrat. Despite her low social standing she is smart and well-educated. The young people fall in love and think about marriage so that they could always be together. Mongryong is soon to go to the capital to take the state civil service exam. They part and in Chunhyang's life there appears the greedy and lustful Byun Hak-do, who tries to seduce her.
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
86%
Tomatometer
Fresh
A premodern folk tale in a postmodern form that refreshes both the eye and our ideas about storytelling.
Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail
Fresh
Im's movie approaches a seething, primitivist beauty that evokes Makhmalbaf and parallels the contrapuntal textual investigations of Resnais.
Michael Atkinson, Village Voice
Fresh
Admiration gives way to something like enthrallment. Be patient and you'll see that this picture casts its own peculiar spell.
Eleanor Ringel Gillespie, Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Fresh
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.
Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune
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