Like looking at a photograph of an ex-lover years after the relationship has ended, "Summer Time" (2001), director Park Jae-ho's controversial erotic drama, possesses the power to arouse on many different levels. At the film's core are the issues of voyeurism, politics and unadulterated desire; a mesmerizing combination that makes for compulsive viewing.
With a narrative running from the present back to the dark days of the Gwangju massacre - when political unrest and social upheaval dominated the Korean landscape - this is an intriguing examination of human relationships, especially ones that are firmly in the grips of one or more of the Seven Deadly Sins.
In a small town somewhere in rural Korea, the beautiful Hee-ran spends her days at home behind a padlocked door that only husband Tae-yeol has the key to. Sang-ho, a handsome student activist, moves into the room above, discovers a hole or three in the floorboards and begins spying on the couple. Before long, he is an earnest...|
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