Rotten
This is a completely unenlightening cri de coeur against the most obvious targets of financial-spiritual discontent.
Keith Uhlich, Time Out New York
The Taste of Money
Money, Where All Lusts Begin.
2012 · 1h 55m · Unrated
Drama
Directed by
Im Sang-soo
Overview
The assistant of a wealthy socialite reveals her husband's salacious affair. The fallout entangles him in a web of sex, love and deceit that could threaten his life and career.
Director and cast
- Im Sang-soo Director
- Kim Kang-woo as Joo Young-jak
- Youn Yuh-jung as Baek Geum-ok
- Baek Yoon-sik as Chairman Yoon
- Kim Hyo-jin as Yoon Nami
- On Ju-wan as Yoon-chul / Charlie
- Maui Taylor as Eva
- Darcy Paquet as Robert
- Hwang Jeong-min as President Roh's Assistant
- Kwon Byung-gil as President Roh
- Kal So-won Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
32%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Both bitter and delicious.
A.O. Scott, New York Times
Fresh
Is there such a thing as "tastefully smutty"? Director Im Sang-soo's moody and semi-Shakespearian The Taste of Money walks that line with some artfully lit humping and cross-generational seduction.
Chris Packham, Village Voice
Rotten
As the sexual, financial and criminal shenanigans get ever more complicated, absurd and melodramatic, the film becomes increasingly tiresome; it's not even possible to enjoy its excesses in a 'so bad it's good' way.
Geoff Andrew, Time Out
Rotten
A trite and tangled potboiler that, despite its polemical pretensions, is just a glorified Korean domestic drama with classier couture and shapelier champagne flutes.
Maggie Lee, Variety
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