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Friday, Jul 3, 1998
Promise of the Flesh
(A lurid remake of a Korean film classic, Lee Man-hee's Late Autumn.) Mild-mannered and modest Sook-young looks like a typical middle-aged woman, but happens to be a man-killing murderess. Within the world of Kim Ki-young's films, maybe that is a typical middle-aged woman. On a train trip to Mokpo, she remembers an earlier trip as a prisoner on furlough accompanied by a menacingly butch but ultimately kind female guard. On the train they meet Hoon, a young man who falls for Sook-young. The guard lets them be alone in a bizarre windswept marriage at the cliff-top grave of Sook-young's mother. Pounding seventies synthesizer music accompanies the film and never lets up.-Chris Berry
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