Breath
Director: Kim Ki-Duk
Year Released: 2007
Rating: 1.0
A slightly nutty housewife flees her emotionally distant, cheating husband to entertain (and fall in love with) a prisoner on death row with karaoke, weird stories, wall decorations and kisses (!?). Hey, sometimes these nutty ideas make great cinema (3-Iron, for example), sometimes they fail - this is an embarrassing effort for Kim, implausible on any human level and uncomfortably foolish. Even his attempt at meta-filmmaking - the interactions between the prisoner and the young woman are viewed by an (unseen) warden via monitor, and his monitor can be seen by the audience (the warden acting as 'director' of their relationship) - seems frail. It's been said women have the ability to suck the life out of a man, and Kim shows (very literally) one way they can do it....
