Films this year:
74. Kim Ki-duk, Birdcage Inn (1998).
Emotionally far-fetched and often tepid and boring, the film shows its true color in the final 10 minutes or so. You'd be chilled to see that many of his future works are foretold in this odd piece. Spiritual sisterhood (the undertone is lesbianism) played against the theme of the sacred whore; like that in his later masterpiece Samaritan Girl.
And who else lets the snow fall in the summer? Lets a gold fish swim in the sea? Marvelously insane.
