| Time | |||||||
| Distributor: | Sponge Happinet | ||||||
| Native Name: |
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| Budget: | $1 million | ||||||
| Gross: | $185,299[1] [2] | ||||||
| Runtime: | 97 minutes | ||||||
| Country: | Japan South Korea | ||||||
| Language: | Korean | ||||||
Time is the thirteenth feature film by South Korean director Kim Ki-duk. It premiered at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival on June 30, 2006.
Seh-hee and Ji-woo (Ha Jung-woo) are a young couple two years into their relationship. Though he never acts on his impulses, Ji-woo has something of a roving eye and Seh-hee is intensely jealous and fearful that Ji-woo will soon lose interest and leave her. Believing that Ji-woo is bored with seeing the same, boring her all the time, Seh-hee takes drastic action, leaving him without warning and having drastic cosmetic surgery, taking on a new face, which she hopes to use to snare him again, under an assumed identity, once she has healed. But when Ji-woo shows interest in this new and "improved" Seh-hee (Sung Hyun-ah), it triggers only more self-doubt and loathing.[3] After all, he may love the "new" girl, but does this mean that he has rejected the old? Seh-hee is utterly trapped in her own insecurities, a situation that prompts Ji-woo to take drastic action of his own.
Filming locations include Baemikkumi Sculpture Park in South Korea.[4] [5]
Of 34 critics counted on Rotten Tomatoes, 76% positively reviewed Time, with the critics' consensus being: "A tale of love and plastic surgery, Kim Ki-Duk's haunting film is both wryly comic and disturbing."[6] The film holds a 73/100 on Metacritic.[7]
| Year | Award | Category | Recipients | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | Chicago International Film Festival | International Film Competition | Time | |
| Sitges - Catalonian International Film Festival | Best Film | |||
| Best Make-Up | Jin Jang | |||
| 2nd Pyeongtaek Film Festival | New Currents Best Actor | Ha Jung-woo | ||
| 2007 | 27th Oporto International Film Festival | Best Actor | ||