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Audience Member I HATED the singing narrative technique. It single-handedly ruined the movie for me. The problem for me is it's much too pervasive. The story itself is a little thin, but could have been a decent movie on its own. Rated 1.5/5 Stars •  Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 02/16/23 Full Review Audience Member I've long wanted to catch this, but feared it may be too arty and inaccessible. Finally I got down to it and I must say this adaptation of a famous Korean folklore is audience-friendly and narrated by songs set to the spellbinding songs and rhythms of the pansori (which may not be everyone's cup of tea). I'm gonna check out the story's setting in Namwon's Gwanghallu Pavilion foshizz! Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/12/23 Full Review Audience Member not my cup of tea story was interesting but the sing song narrative-lame Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 01/21/23 Full Review Audience Member This bland story isn't helped by its grating soundtrack/narration. Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 02/10/23 Full Review Audience Member The visual style of film is overly indebted to Kurosawa, without his genius, and the love story itself is deeply old-fashioned, take it or leave it. But the framing device--the traditional musical storyteller, in a modern concert hall, spinning the tale start to finish-- is really clever and and adds many layers to the whole enterprise. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/22/23 Full Review Audience Member A highly stylized telling of a Korean folk tale from another time concerning love and loyalty. A singer, almost operatic in his delivery, tells most of the tale from a stage in a concert setting and as a voice over to the action. The actors also tell part of the tale in dialogue. Very slow paced, as the action had to fit to the singing, and not the other way around. Intrigue and treachery and brutality and, at last, justice, with a bit of humor mixed in, came together to teach us of this woman's love that cut across the traditional dividing line of class. That love enabled her to bear up under the suffering she experienced as a reward for her loyalty. Beautiful cinematography, breathtaking scenery, and lovely actors were on constant display. At nearly two hours, however, it did begin to get tedious. This simple tale could have been told with less pomp, but then maybe we would not have felt so immersed in Korean culture. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/31/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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