Beautiful and brilliant. Kim Ki-duk's directing and story are superb and the amazing main actors don't need words to show emotions.

Not as good as the other Kim Ki-Duk films I've seen (The Bow, The Breath, and Spring, Summer...) but still was enjoyable. Sure, some parts were a little contrived, some of the acting was unrealistic, but the story doesn't suffer too much from it.

gafsaaaaaaaaa

...a perfect story that is shaped with the silence.

Strange movie with an unhurried pace. Only a few dialogs but great at the picture language.

Gets worse in the second half, but still has good direction and it still really impressed me.

Ingenius and beautiful small movie.

this is one weird film-this guy goes into strangers' homes and lives there while they are gone, then he meets this married oppressed lady and they run together, they obviously fall in love but her husband searches for them both, he ends up in jail and does some buddhist meditation technique which kinda makes him invisible....i mean i dont understand what this movie was trying to say!!!! but u kno wat,i coudnt switch off the tv for whole 2 hours and kept watching this..i bet everyone will!

The entire film is rather oneiric with musical motifs, virtually mute characters, strange fades and rather unreal series of events. Through presenting an oneiric landscape, Kim is able to explore the psychological tribulations of the characters to greater success. This form of the film fruitfully complements the film's themes, which mainly revolves around alienation, a theme very relevant to this century. Thanks for the competent and suitable execution!

Brilliant.. Another near silent movie, filled with grace, beauty, love, and just awesome..

absolutely lovely first half-ish but the wordlessness struggles to settle into the narrative once things start happening (as in it gets a bit gimmicky), unlike in, say, the considerably more elegant and mature 'hana-bi' (but then any film's gonna buckle under the weight of that comparison). ki-duk's spiritualising/philosophising also starts to point to itself more and more often in the second half, and it started to feel a bit thematic & didactic somehow. i still like this but i'm conflicted.

Is it hyperbole to call this the most affecting love story ever put to celluloid? 'Cause I'm going to do it anyway.

So it's based on a gimmick, with no epic justification at all (everybody else in the film talk, and there are even clues that the protagonist talk in moments that aren't shown). But it works, and in such a beutiful way. What I like the most is that the film dosen't entirely rely on that gimmick: while it surely is the most important element of the film, the plot, the terrific acting, the development and the unclear ending will make one forget all about the protagonists' "mutism".

Beautiful and peaceful, punctuated by a few extreme moments. In a longer film the couple of gimmicks could get old but it's short enough that once you get over it everything just clicks and feels right.

Talk about minimalist. Almost no dialogue, all visual cues. However, I liked that the story takes on a dreamy aspect in the last part, leaving it open to interpretation for the audience as to what exactly had happened. It gave it a bit of an edge that it lacked up to that point.

great movie and a great choice of soundtrack fits right in there

Lovely. Even if the gimmick is a bit dumb at times. Pretty original though.

A love story in which neither of the leads ever utters a single word (well the girl says one thing at the very end, but that hardly counts). And it works brilliantly. Everything here is really original, and the solution to the main conflict, though it could be construed as stupid and ridiculous, is awesome and kind of beautiful in my opinion.

Very odd movie, but I liked it. Not much dialog between the two main characters, but it was actually a nice change of pace from the norm.