A Good Lawyer's Wife

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Audience Member This story about a horny housewife seeking intimacy feels jaded and plays only for shock value! Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 02/18/23 Full Review Audience Member Boasting some of the most striking scenes of graphic nudity and intimacy ever presented in a Korean film, A Good Lawyer's Wife is a compelling and dramatic look into the lives of modern South Korea's 386 generation. As with so many modern films about life on the peninsula, the film is both an insight into the intricate gender politics of the Hermit Nation and of it's people's inability to cleanse themselves of their past. Focalised from the point of neglected mother and wife Hojung, director Im Sang-soo pulls no punches with a distinctly pro-femanist outlook on the circumstances surrounding his protagonist and her relationship with her self centred lawyer husband who in the midst of working on a case regarding a mass grave containing the remains of Korean war veterns, helplessly careens toward the same path of alcoholic self destruction as his father before him. The destructiveness of the Lawyer's drunken philanderings with his mistress, coupled by the subplot of Hojung's own affairs with a high school drop out inevitably result in violence and tragedy. Equally as graphic as the sex scenes is the degree of realistic violence which seems to pervade every single plot twist; be it a fist left bloodied from smashing a mirror, the harrowing and sombre death of the lawyer's father or the domestic violence which signals the final severance of family ties. Ultimately, A Good Lawyer's Wife seeks to outline the mascline problem of 'symbolic loss' through the Lawyer's inability to mend his self destructive ways and the horrific treatment of Korean women through Hojung's tumultous journey to the dark heart of human sexuality. Whilst Kim Ki-Duk undoubtedly offers a far stronger exploration of these themes (and he does so without baiting the sensors) this is certainly worth a look if you're not easily offended by full frontal male/female nudity or gender related violence. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/02/23 Full Review Audience Member The film is realistically dark. I feel like being messy into a troubled family's life. I enjoy the film except the gross scene that the upset drunkard throwing the adopted son onto the ground! Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 01/18/23 Full Review Audience Member The scene where the drunk killed the child was the ugliest thing I have ever seen. It couldn't go worse with this movie. I'm terribly sorry that I saw this piece of sh35*(*&t. Rated 0.5/5 Stars •  Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 02/14/23 Full Review Audience Member Un tres bon film, brutal et corse, sur l'effondrement des piliers traditionnels de la societe coreenne, sur l'eclatement de la cellule familiale. Im Sang-Soo n'y va pas avec le dos de la cuiller avec l'histoire de ce couple bourgeois - presque modele - qui se dechire... il provoque, excite, ecoeure et bouscule les tabous, alternant erotisme torride et gore absolu, Eros et Thanatos. Comme souvent chez les Coreens, la realisation et les cadres sont extremement soignes. On sent chez Im Sang-Soo l'influence de la Nouvelle Vague francaise.Il y a du Truffaut, du Chabrol dans son film, la meme ironie distanciee, le meme gout pour la provocation, le macabre. Son film rappelle aussi par certains aspects le "Magnolia" de P.T. Anderson mais aussi "American Beauty" de S.Mendes (notamment pour l'attirance qu'eprouve l'heroine pour son jeune voisin adolescent). "Une Femme Coreenne" est portee par deux merveilleux acteurs, Moon So-Ri et Hwang Jung-Min (deja excellent en petit roquet sadique dans "A Bittersweet Life"), sensibles et delicats. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/26/23 Full Review Audience Member un tema interesante y dificil de tocar, buen cine coreano como nos tiene acostumbrado. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/12/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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