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The Isle
2000
The eerily beautiful photography and melodic musical score of THE ISLE stand in odd contrast to the brutal horror story it tells. On the serene surface of a secluded bay float a series of candy-coloured fishing houses, rented to men who seek an escape. The owner and operator of the village is a mute woman with a row boat who .. Read more
| Starring | Jung Suh, Yoo-Seok Kim, Sung-Hee Park |
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| Director | Kim Ki-Duk, Ki-Duk Kim |
| Genres | Drama, World Cinema |
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The Isle
The eerily beautiful photography and melodic musical score of THE ISLE stand in odd contrast to the brutal horror story it tells. On the serene surface of a secluded bay float a series of candy-coloured fishing houses, rented to men who seek an escape. The owner and operator of the village is a mute woman with a row boat who delivers her guests to their floating rooms, and sells them bait, food, coffee, prostitutes, and occasionally her own body. The men mistreat her, and her wounded spirit haunts the lake. At first subtle and secretive, but increasingly more bold and direct, the mute woman enacts unexpected violence upon the men. For example, when one client is leaning out over the dock to defecate into the lake, she swims up behind him, pulls him under the water, and stabs him. The blurred, partially submerged camerawork suggests that the woman is disembodied while committing these acts, as if unrealised hatred is surfacing within her to inspire her actions. Real trouble arrives in the form of a man who is hiding out from the law. He rents the yellow fishing house closest to shore and contemplates suicide. A sadomasochistic chemistry develops between this unhappy man and the mute woman and their relationship facilitates a series of extremely violent sex and mutilation scenes which ultimately bring THE ISLE to its disturbing conclusion.
| Starring | Jung Suh, Yoo-Seok Kim, Sung-Hee Park |
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| Director | Kim Ki-Duk, Ki-Duk Kim |
| Studio | PALISADES TARTAN |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 27 mins LOVEFiLM Instant: 1 hr 28 mins |
| Certificate |  DVD LOVEFiLM Instant |
| Genres | Drama, World Cinema |
| Language | DVD: Korean LOVEFiLM Instant: English |
| Subtitles | DVD: English |
| Released | Production year: 2000 To Watch Online: LOVEFiLM Instant: 01 Feb 2010 To Rent: DVD: 23 May 2005 |
| Watch now | Included in all packages with LOVEFiLM Instant. Subscribe. |
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Women! Can't live with 'em, can't live without 'em! Notorious for causing viewers to scream, vomit and pass out at... read more on Time Out
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Twisted Love
'The Isle' is a wonderfully shot, atmospheric and almost gleefully perverse (and not a little gruesome) tale of love and lust and... well, brutal murder... read more »
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- 19 Sep 2005 at 18:00
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The Isle - My Review
Containing at least three scenes of a particularly difficult nature, two of which will make me wince for years to come, The Isle is nonetheless strangely ... read more »
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This Septic Isle
Beautifully filmed but ultimately disturbing love story of sorts, the absence of dialog (largely) serves to accentuate the beauty of the setting and the ... read more »
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For people who understand Kim Ki-Duk's movies
Again i feel i have to write something to counteract the really unfair negative reviews, including the critic's comments: 'banal ideas', 'shock ... read more »
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Danes brushes off ghost stories
- 20 Nov 2009
Claire Danes has laughed off rumours the set of Me And Orson Welles was haunted, insisting she wouldn't have been able to act if she'd spotted a ghost. Tabloid reports suggested Danes and co-star Zac Efron were left spooked after they came face-to-face with a spirit in the historic Gaiety Theatre on the Isle of Man, where they were filming the period drama last year (08). But Danes is relieved to report the stories aren't true - because she's terrified of supernatural beings. She says, "I'm... Read more
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The Isle
The eerily beautiful photography and melodic musical score of THE ISLE stand in odd contrast to the brutal horror story it tells. On the serene surface of a secluded bay float a series of candy-coloured fishing houses, rented to men who seek an escape. The owner and operator of the village is a ...
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