2007 · fantasy · drama · horror
Hansel & Gretel
Directed by Yim Pil-sung1h 57m2007
When Eun-soo gets lost in a country road, he meets a mysterious girl and is led to her fairytale ike house in the middle of the forest. There, Eun-soo is trapped with the girl and her siblings who never age. Eun-soo finally discovers a way out which is written on a fairy tale book. But the book tells a story of none other than himself!
Our read: Hansel & Gretel (2007) reads as a sombre, steady, surreal fantasy · drama · horror entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, steady, measured fantasy / drama, surreal in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- sombre
- intense
- surreal
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