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3 Iron 4 Stars

This is a beautiful film with almost no dialogue and therefore few subtitles. Sit back and enjoy the the journey this enigmatic couple undertake. Almost a masterpiece.

[Highly rated reviewer]

3-Iron

The best film of the insanely prolific (13 films in 10 years) Kim Ki-duk is this hypnotic romance. Again Kim gives us main characters who seldom speak (for the record one of them says one line, in the film's final scene) and here we watch as they build trust and then a romance. All of this plays out in silence and yet there isn't a false note and the relationship is utterly believeable, and rather touching.

Like all of Kim's films 3-Iron is a wonder to look upon as the director finds beauty in the mundane. This is also easily Kim's most accessible work to date, at the centre is a romance and what surrounds it is largely free of the excesses of his earlier films (though there's some violence with golf clubs). A date movie for the brave then.