After 'Scandal' starring Bae Yong-joon is released with a title, called , in the United States, the movie is hearing excellent accounts from the presses in the United States such as The New York Times and The New York Daily News that it is an excellent film described the original nature of man well.
An excellent movie describing the original nature of man
The New York Times has placed high value on 'Scandal' by saying that the film is an excellent movie described the original nature of man well in the same manner as a theater dramatized a French novel 'Les Liaisons Dangereuses.
The newspaper has rated high, saying that it deserves seeing with a stunning costume, an art equipment, gorgeous landscape, and beautiful illumination etc.
The New York Daily News' Robert Dominguez also rated as follows: In Korean with English subtitles. Korean director Je-yong Lee puts a compelling cross-cultural spin on a familiar plot in this erotic, Eastern adaptation of the Chodelos de Laclos' 1782 French novel "Les Liaisons Dangereuses" ("Dangerous Liaisons").
Attention with stunning costume & gorgeous landscape
Unfolding in Korea during the late 18th century, "Untold Scandal" focuses on the sexual machinations of Lady Cho, a beautiful aristocrat who sets in motion a chain of seductions and deflowerings using her wily, playboy cousin (Bae Yong-Jun in a strong performance) as her pawn.
It's not all about musical beds, however. Through a subplot dealing with Catholic missionaries, an underlying theme of Western encroachment on ancient Korean culture permeates this lushly filmed tale.
On one hand, LA weekly's Ella Taylor reviews as follows: For so long as repressive societies with loopholes for the idle rich persist, so will revivals of Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Choderlos de Laclos?1782 novel of passion and betrayal in pre-revolutionary France.
Excellent accounts from the press
No one grasped more acutely than de Laclos the mechanics of institutional hypocrisy in highly conformist cultures, or more tragically the roots of cynicism in thwarted love. Director Lee Je-Yong gives the book a makeover full of wit and startling beauty as a tragicomedy of Korean manners at the dawn of the Chosun dynasty in the late 18th century, a period known for its gravitas.
Amid the gorgeous, suffocating Confucian ritual of upper-class life, a manipulative matron (the stunning Lee Mi-sook) and a career philanderer (television heartthrob Bae Yong-Jun), bound by slander, corruption and an ambiguous mutual past, bed their servants and plot to deflower a devoutly Catholic young widow (Jeon Do-yeon) who remains steadfastly celibate in honor of her dead husband.
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