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Joint Security Area

Your shadow is over the line...

2000 · 1h 48m · Not Rated Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Directed by Park Chan-wook

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Two North Korean soldiers are killed in the border area between North and South Korea, prompting an investigation by a neutral body. The lead investigator receives differing accounts from the two sides.

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88%
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Rotten

I can't be as enthusiastic.

V.A. Musetto, New York Post
Fresh

Park Chan-Wook's Joint Security Area is a fairly straightforward whodunit with a pointedly political theme and an unapologetically humanist message.

A.O. Scott, New York Times
Rotten

Park's film reveals its double agency by swinging between emotion-charged flashbacks of weepie male bonding and the investigative longueurs of the icy, half-Korean, half-Swedish female officer in charge of mopping up the brotherly bloodbath.

Chuck Stephens, Village Voice

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