The Quiet Family
1998
A family decides to buy a lodge in a remote hiking area. Their first customer commits suicide and the distraught family buries his body to avoid the bad publicity. Read more
| Starring | In-hwan Park, Mun-hee Na, Song Kang-ho, Min-sik Choi |
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| Director | Ji-woon Kim |
| Genres | Comedy, World Cinema |
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The Quiet Family
A family decides to buy a lodge in a remote hiking area. Their first customer commits suicide and the distraught family buries his body to avoid the bad publicity.
| Starring | In-hwan Park, Mun-hee Na, Song Kang-ho, Min-sik Choi, Ho-kyung Go, Yun-seong Lee |
|---|---|
| Director | Ji-woon Kim |
| Studio | PRISM LEISURE |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 50 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Comedy, World Cinema |
| Language | DVD: Korean |
| Dubbed | English |
| Subtitles | DVD: English |
| Released | DVD: 27 Jun 2005 Production year: 1998 |
| Format | DVD |
The Quiet Family (1998)
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Shades of Arsenic and Old Lace colour this dark South Korean romp, prompting the paraphrase, eccentricity doesn't run in the Quiet family, it practically gallops. No sooner has the “Misty Lodge” opened its doors than the bodies start to pile up and the garden begins to resemble a cemetery. But there's worse to come when a murderous businessman lures his detested stepmother to the isolated hilltop cottage and the government announces plans for a new road — right past the front gate. This is a wickedly anarchic comedy of errors, with director Kim Ji-woon timing the slapstick and farce to a T.
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Very funny, very strange
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5 out of 6 people found this review helpful
The family that slays together...
Don't be put off if you've seen The Happiness of the Katakuris, Takashi Miike's unwatchable Japanese remake. This first film by Ji-woon Kim, who wrote and directed the excellent Tale of Two Sisters (which I watched for the umpteenth time the other night and it still makes my flash creep) is not at all bad. Its an other-worldly black comedy about a family-run guest house in the mountains. One guest after another checks in, passes away and gets buried in the woods by their mortified hosts. As the bodies mount up, so do their problems and they find themselves resorting to ever more sinister tactics to protect their secret. Its a nice premise, and very funny in places. But though he makes a convincing stab at the genre the situation never quite gets as farcical as I felt it should and you can see that comedy isn't really Ji-woon Kim's thing, though I daresay much is lost in the translation. The atmosphere of Two Sisters is already very much in evidence, which lots of stylish camera work and moody, washed out colours, and while it often works incredibly effectively it's a little too visually restrained and European-looking for the material. Things are boosted by the presence of a rather killer soundtrack. Korean trip hop? Who'd have thunk it? If you've enjoyed recent Korean films like Old Boy or Joint Security Area this is a good one to check out. Happy holidays!
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5 out of 6 people found this review helpful
The family that slays together...
Don't be put off if you've seen The Happiness of the Katakuris, Takashi Miike's unwatchable Japanese remake. This first film by Ji-woon Kim, who wrote and directed the excellent Tale of Two Sisters (which I watched for the umpteenth time the other night and it still makes my flash creep) is not at all bad. Its an other-worldly black comedy about a family-run guest house in the mountains. One guest after another checks in, passes away and gets buried in the woods by their mortified hosts. As the bodies mount up, so do their problems and they find themselves resorting to ever more sinister tactics to protect their secret. Its a nice premise, and very funny in places. But though he makes a convincing stab at the genre the situation never quite gets as farcical as I felt it should and you can see that comedy isn't really Ji-woon Kim's thing, though I daresay much is lost in the translation. The atmosphere of Two Sisters is already very much in evidence, which lots of stylish camera work and moody, washed out colours, and while it often works incredibly effectively it's a little too visually restrained and European-looking for the material. Things are boosted by the presence of a rather killer soundtrack. Korean trip hop? Who'd have thunk it? If you've enjoyed recent Korean films like Old Boy or Joint Security Area this is a good one to check out. Happy holidays!
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The Quiet Family
A family decides to buy a lodge in a remote hiking area. Their first customer commits suicide and the distraught family buries his body to avoid the bad publicity....
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