''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 on June 30, 2006.
Plot
Seh-hee and Ji-woo (
Ha Jung-woo
Kim Sung-hoon (born March 11, 1978), better known as Ha Jung-woo (), is a South Korean actor, film director, screenwriter and film producer. One of the highest grossing actors in South Korea, Ha's starring films have accumulated more than 100 mil ...
) 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), 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 in
South Korea
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.
Reception
Of 34 critics counted on
Rotten Tomatoes
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, 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
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.
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