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Sang-soo Hong (writer)
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22 March 2002 (South Korea)
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Sex
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Reminiscence
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Adultery
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Lake
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University Professor
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2 wins
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quiet but very intense
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(Credited cast)| Sang-mi Choo | ... | Seon-young | |
| Ji-won Ye | ... | Myung-sook | |
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| George Georgiou | ... | Roger | |
| Hak-sun Kim | ... | Seong-wu | |
| Sang-kyung Kim | ... | Gyung-soo | |
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On the Occasion of Remembering the Turning Gate (International: English title)
Turning Gate (International: English title)
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Turning Gate (International: English title)
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115 min
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Even though it's difficult to be a human being, let's not turn into monsters.
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From the very start i was caught up in the pacing of this film. Everything felt so down-to-earth and therefore so natural.
But as it is often the case with those calm movies, there is, in truth, a lot of noise behind these curtains of silence. You can't see it directly but after looking at all these details, and there are a lot of them, frictions are just popping out everywhere. Every single spoken word has then a special meaning.
Technically the film is simply dull. No music, at least i don't remember, very simple camera angles etc. It felt more like a theater-play than a film. The only difference was having the real environment, but even that was not so important. There were only some "items", which played a key-role, like the turning gate, but they were also replaceable with a stage-backdrop.
So that is the risk that some might be bored to death when they happen to run into this film. For myself it was just fascinating. A 10/10 as a theater play ... but, because of the unused potential of "film-techniques", a 9/10 as a movie.