30 December 2011

3-Iron (South Korea/Japan, 2004)

A young drifter enters strangers' houses - and lives - while owners are away. He spends a night or a day sleeping in, repaying their "hospitality" by doing laundry or small repairs. His life changes when he runs into a beautiful woman in a mansion who is ready to escape her unhappy, abusive marriage. 

The film is notable for the lack of dialogue between its two main characters, and that makes it one of the most unique films on this list. You'd think that a movie with hardly any dialogue would make it less believable, but no, it's perfect and there's so much being said without the use of dialogue anyway. It's like a trademark of director Kim Ki-duk (The Isle, Pieta), and I think it's such a cool thing to write a romance story where the man and woman doesn't speak to each other. 

A fantastic and lovely unique film.


Genre: Drama/Romance

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