Untold Scandal (2003)
(Scandal - Joseon namnyeo sangyeoljisa)
Country: KOR
Technical: col 124m
Director: Je-yong Lee
Cast: Mi-suk Lee, Do-yeon Jeon, So-yeon Lee
Synopsis:
In 18th century Korea a landowner's wife weaves a complex plot of revenge and flirtation with a notorious libertine, in which the lives of a bride to be and chaste spinster are pawns. The death and misery of all concerned is the ultimate price of their viciousness.
Review:
An adroit translation of Les Liaisons Dangereuses with nothing lost; if anything one might imagine that contemporary Korean society was more rigid, and therefore scandalized, than France's. The period detail is exhaustive and settings and props are sumptuously shot; indifferent actors would appear like museum pieces, but this is far from the case. The climax, in which the disgraced wife sails all but alone to an uncertain future in China, is if anything more desperate than the original's.
(Scandal - Joseon namnyeo sangyeoljisa)
Country: KOR
Technical: col 124m
Director: Je-yong Lee
Cast: Mi-suk Lee, Do-yeon Jeon, So-yeon Lee
Synopsis:
In 18th century Korea a landowner's wife weaves a complex plot of revenge and flirtation with a notorious libertine, in which the lives of a bride to be and chaste spinster are pawns. The death and misery of all concerned is the ultimate price of their viciousness.
Review:
An adroit translation of Les Liaisons Dangereuses with nothing lost; if anything one might imagine that contemporary Korean society was more rigid, and therefore scandalized, than France's. The period detail is exhaustive and settings and props are sumptuously shot; indifferent actors would appear like museum pieces, but this is far from the case. The climax, in which the disgraced wife sails all but alone to an uncertain future in China, is if anything more desperate than the original's.
(Scandal - Joseon namnyeo sangyeoljisa)
Country: KOR
Technical: col 124m
Director: Je-yong Lee
Cast: Mi-suk Lee, Do-yeon Jeon, So-yeon Lee
Synopsis:
In 18th century Korea a landowner's wife weaves a complex plot of revenge and flirtation with a notorious libertine, in which the lives of a bride to be and chaste spinster are pawns. The death and misery of all concerned is the ultimate price of their viciousness.
Review:
An adroit translation of Les Liaisons Dangereuses with nothing lost; if anything one might imagine that contemporary Korean society was more rigid, and therefore scandalized, than France's. The period detail is exhaustive and settings and props are sumptuously shot; indifferent actors would appear like museum pieces, but this is far from the case. The climax, in which the disgraced wife sails all but alone to an uncertain future in China, is if anything more desperate than the original's.