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Christopher
27Jan12
I was really into this. There are many powerful, lingering scenes that give its lead character an opportunity to release her emotions. For example, that first prayer service scene...
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Howard Orr
14Jan12
Very well acted by Jeon Do-yeon, but somehow too novelistic for me -it really lacks visual flair. It's like filming a novel in an economical, tasteful way, and nothing more. But I want blood and colour and movement in a film to consider it exceptional, and a view of cinema as an art form, not merely a means for telling a story.
msmichel
1Jan12
An extraordinary work to finish the year with. Finally had the chance to catch up with this remarkable film from Lee Chang-Dong director of 'Peppermint Candy' and the recent 'Poetry'.Jeon Do-yeon gives a performance for the ages here richly deserving her Cannes laurels that year. A magnificient script taking the viewer through a gamut of emotions and questioning our faith in not only god but in man as well.
Matthew Martens
25Sep11
Without lapsing into overdetermination or simplification, Lee limns a taut, moving, even mesmerizing film about the uses and limits of faith when confronted by pain, loss, and the freedom of others to script narratives that, while they overlap with our own, can also seem to undermine them or reduce them to absurdity. Mr. Kim serves at once as sinister specter, comic relief, and, finally, something to believe in.
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Kyle Lewis
8Sep11
Disturbing and truthful for much of it's running time. Lee Chang Dong creates one of the best Korean films I've seen. Jeon Do-yeon is remarkable.
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Răpciune
18Aug11
even those in pain can be hypocrites, generosity becomes acrimony when you have no one to bestow it upon. the relief is only superficial, the resignation and magnanimity only neurotic lethargia, peace is volatile and madness comes dancing dressed as rebellion. the borders of affects are fluid and evanescent, slippery and mystifying, meandering through an unmapped territory and collective alienating faith.
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Matthew_Lucas
12Aug11
A woman's personal tragedies lead her to God in this quietly powerful study of grief and modern religion. Opening on the sky and ending on the ground, SECRET SUNSHINE is a complete spiritual journey examining the effects of religion on those in mourning, and the hollow platitudes that represent either salvation or self-delusion.
Teng-Kuan Ng
1Aug11
If this film made you think about issues of theodicy, grief, and recovery -- and/or if you wonder how it might be compared to the book of Job -- I'd be honored if you read an essay I wrote, published in the summer 2011 issue of the Journal of Religion and Popular Culture: http://tiny.cc/qfkiy
Toby Hung
10Sep10
An outstanding work of art that requires mandatory viewing from everyone, regardless of their religion. This film realistically depicts faith, how easily it can be gained and how quickly it can be lost.
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Ryan Borja
6Sep10
Film is too long and can still be enhanced at the editing room. The only reason you will stay is with the stunning perf by Jeon Do-yeon. Film poses difficult questions about faith and spirituality. Sadly though, it hardly grapple with these same doubts so the open-ended ending just failed to nail it.
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Ottori Tekki Chan
20Jun10
ketemu pendeta pampir lagi disinni.. keren ikih aktingnya pantas kalo nyabet aktris terbaik di cannes, ga sabar ntn the house maid.