Movie Review

Time (2007)

Reviewed by Lisa Schwarzbaum | Jul 18, 2007

Lisa Schwarzbaum

Lisa Schwarzbaum is a film critic for EW

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EW's GRADE

C+

Details Limited Release: Jul 13, 2007; Rated: Unrated; Length: 97 Minutes; Genres: Drama, Foreign Language; With: Park Ji-yun and Ha Jung-woo

$FACE DANCES Seong (right) thinks boyfriend Ha is bored with her look, so she becomes a surgically reconstructed \'\'new\'\' person...$

FACE DANCES Seong (right) thinks boyfriend Ha is bored with her look, so she becomes a surgically reconstructed ''new'' person in Time

A jealous girlfriend (Seong Hyeon-ah), convinced her boyfriend (Ha Jung-woo) is growing tired of her ''same boring face,'' disappears and turns to surgery to buy a new one. Then the jilted boyfriend meets a ''new'' girl (Park Ji-yun), who is actually the old girl. And then it gets weirder. Time, Kim Ki-Duk's pointed commentary on surfaces and consumer fads — with particular meaning for plastic-surgery-obsessed South Korea — is as tautly ''pretty'' and inexpressive as the results for those who compulsively seek cosmetic perfection.

Originally posted Jul 17, 2007 Published in issue #945 Jul 27, 2007 Order article reprints

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