Turning Gate Reviews

Graphically depicts the impact desire, coincidence, and fate have upon romantic relationships

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Though it takes a while for its real emotional heft to be made apparent, [it] eventually grows into an insightful and astutely realized examination of the ways we accumulate the emotional baggage that we carry as we move through our romantic entanglements

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

An aesthetically satisfying film about desire being the overriding motive in relationships.

Full Review | Original Score: A-

Hong San-soo's comic rendezvous Turning Gate is built on a series of repetitions that mirror the South Korean director's fascination with reincarnation.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4

It's a deeply thought-out, uncompromising film that brings a novelistic approach to the description of the inner life of its subject.

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