Average Rating: 7.7/10
Reviews Counted: 28
Fresh: 25 | Rotten: 3
Lead actress Moon So-ri's stand out performance gives this harrowing film much of its power.
Average Rating: 7.9/10
Critic Reviews: 12
Fresh: 12 | Rotten: 0
Lead actress Moon So-ri's stand out performance gives this harrowing film much of its power.
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Jumong star Song Il-kook headlines this three-part period drama produced for Korean television, and set during the Japanese occupation of Korea. In-hee (Jang Shin-Young) is on the run from an arranged marriage when she crosses paths with handsome musician Gi-hyun (Il-kook). Their friendship blossoming into love over the course of the next few years, In-hee lands a job in radio while Gi-hyun finds success as a saxophone player. When Gi-hyun discovers In-hee's boss Young-jin (Lee Jung-Gill) - a
Jan 11, 2003 Wide
Nov 23, 2004
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All Critics (28) | Top Critics (12) | Fresh (25) | Rotten (3)
A loving and lovely film.
A brave film in the way it shows two people who find any relationship almost impossible, and yet find a way to make theirs work.
The actors' scenes together are simultaneously abrasive and oddly gentle: two untamable people trying to stabilize each other.
Perhaps the most harrowing screen romance ever.
Lee's humanitarian plea for tolerance is one of the most original films of the decade, and Moon provides the soul.
A love story of two young people marginalized by family and society that becomes a scorching indictment of the indifference, cruelty and hypocrisy of those institutions as the couple inevitably come into profound conflict with them.
a touching, if uncomfortable, depiction of conservative Korean society as the danger from which misfits sometimes need protection (rather than the other way round).
a subversive slice of Seoul life that's both funny and heartbreaking
Makes you pay a dear price before getting to the sublime beauty of such a disturbing film.
It has some rough spots - but the more you think about this movie, the more you care about these characters.
Its honesty and avoidance of comfortable closure make it a refreshing change from the sort of phony uplift such stories ordinarily receive on the screen.
Oasis is the kind of film that is a must for any serious film buff...and the adventurous movie-goer who isn't afraid of a little challenge.
There's always a danger when lead roles are disabled characters to make them too sympathetic. A deft touch is required, and Lee delivers.
A dark, off-putting film that offers spare insights but may not be worth the effort it takes to view it.
It sounds like a pervy after-school special, but Oasis features one of the year's most remarkable performances.
A fascinating piece of work.
A markedly different kind of movie.
Both leads make the romance convincing, and Jong-Du even becomes sympathetic despite being almost insufferably thick-headed.
This is a film that gives humanism back its good name.
This is one of the most painfully beautiful movies ever made. Oasis is the story of a man that is responsible for the death of a man in a drink driving accident. Upon his release from prison he goes to the man's children to apologise. Oasis has no easy emotions or answers. Characters are complicated and real, with a
July 28, 2009Super Reviewer
A love story told in a brutally honest way. In the hands of someone else this could have failed miserable, it could had become another dumb feel-good fantasy love film. Yet here the movie remains so focused in what is doing, from start to finish, that is almost scary. A lesson in movie making, in acting and so on.
February 20, 2009
Super Reviewer
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