'Breathe' is about a depressed housewife who begins an affair with a death row criminal who killed his wife.
It isn't one of the best that Korean director Kim-duk Kim has made. However, it's fascinating and confirmation that his adventurous and deviant spirit existed early on.
I may not have fully understood all the dramatic metaphors but bought into the moods of loneliness and redemption, the catharsis she sought, and that we are all human no matter who we are or what we've done.
It isn't one of the best that Korean director Kim-duk Kim has made. However, it's fascinating and confirmation that his adventurous and deviant spirit existed early on.
I may not have fully understood all the dramatic metaphors but bought into the moods of loneliness and redemption, the catharsis she sought, and that we are all human no matter who we are or what we've done.