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Kim Ki-duk is back again with another stylish and thought provoking film from Korea.  Apparently his best films haven´t been released here but this and his other (Spring, Summer, etc, etc) have plenty of merit and place him up among the more interesting film makers of the moment.  This film is about a young man with very particular principles who enters houses illegally when their owners are away, inhabits them for a day or two, stealing nothing but a bit of food from the fridge, often fixing things and doing the washing as well as wearing the owners clothes.  He also likes practising his golf swing with a number three iron, is adept at martial arts and is university educated.  Along the way he meets a battered wife in one of the houses and they begin a silent relationship in which she joins him on his odyssey from house to house.  This enrages her husband who attacks the young man and this eventually leads to being caught by the police and jail.  Unexpected things happen, and yet there is a coherency and message to this film which offers us a different urban story.  The photography is excellent, the acting is fine and the whole direction and care with which the details are revealed to us show a fine director at work.  Maybe it is not a great movie but 3-iron definitely provides novelty and themes for reflection.

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