2004 · drama · romance
3-Iron
Directed by Kim Ki-duk1h 28m2004
A drifter lives in people's houses while they are away and repays them by doing chores for them. His life changes when he meets a beautiful woman who wants to escape her unhappy marriage.
Our read: 3-Iron (2004) reads as a neutral, measured, inventive drama · romance entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Neutral, measured, measured drama / romance, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- measured
- inventive
- signature
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