''Time'' is the thirteenth feature film by
South Korean director
Kim Ki-duk
Kim Ki-duk ( ; 20 December 196011 December 2020) was a South Korean film director and screenwriter, noted for his idiosyncratic art-house cinematic works. His films have received many distinctions in the festival circuit, rendering him one of ...
. It premiered at the
Karlovy Vary International Film Festival
The Karlovy Vary International Film Festival ( cs, Mezinárodní filmový festival Karlovy Vary) is a film festival held annually in July in Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic. The Karlovy Vary Festival is one of the oldest in the world and has become ...
on June 30, 2006.
Plot
Seh-hee and Ji-woo (
Ha Jung-woo) are a young couple two years into their relationship. Though he never acts on his impulses, Ji-woo has something of a roving eye and Seh-hee is intensely jealous and fearful that Ji-woo will soon lose interest and leave her. Believing that Ji-woo is bored with seeing the same, boring her all the time, Seh-hee takes drastic action, leaving him without warning and having drastic cosmetic surgery, taking on a new face, which she hopes to use to snare him again, under an assumed identity, once she has healed. But when Ji-woo shows interest in this new and "improved" Seh-hee (
Sung Hyun-ah
Sung Hyun-ah (born July 23, 1975) is a South Korean actress and former Miss Korea.
Biography
Sung Hyun-ah placed second runner-up (or third place) at the Miss Korea pageant in 1994. She was the country's representative at the 1994 Miss Internati ...
), it triggers only more self-doubt and loathing. After all, he may love the "new" girl, but does this mean that he has rejected the old? Seh-hee is utterly trapped in her own insecurities, a situation that prompts Ji-woo to take drastic action of his own.
Production
Filming locations include
Baemikkumi Sculpture Park
Baemikkumi Sculpture Park ( ko, 배미꾸미조각공원) is a sculpture park rest at the southern part of the Modo Island, which is one of the nearest islets to Yeongjongdo Island in South Korea. The park contains around hundred modern and abst ...
in
South Korea.
Reception
Of 34 critics counted on
Rotten Tomatoes, 76% positively reviewed ''Time'', with the critics' consensus being: "A tale of love and plastic surgery, Kim Ki-Duk's haunting film is both wryly comic and disturbing." The film holds a 73/100 on
Metacritic.
Awards and nominations
References
External links
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Film review at the Korea Society Film Journal
{{Kim Ki-duk
2006 films
2006 drama films
South Korean independent films
South Korean mystery films
Films directed by Kim Ki-duk
Sponge Entertainment films
2000s Korean-language films
Works about plastic surgery
2000s South Korean films