Definitely not for the faint-hearted, South Korean director Kim ki-duk's Moebius tells a wordless (though not soundless, as there are plenty of grunts and groans) tale featuring unnamed characters that begins with a ferocious fight between a man (Jo Jae-hyeon) and his wife (Lee Eun-woo), who has discovered her husband's infidelity. She attacks him with a knife, but he manages to escape to his mistress, a local shopkeeper (also played by Lee Eun-woo), after which the frustrated and frenzied wife not only castrates her teenage son but also devours his bloody penis before running away. And that's only the beginning of a scenario featuring gang rape, genital transplants, incest, and suicide. Moebius is clearly intended to be an extremely dark comedy about bourgeois sexual mores, but its heavy-handed approach and ugly visual style (with lots of woozy handheld camera shots and extreme close-ups) makes it more of an endurance test. A crude attempt at provocation, this is a real disappointment from the director who once gave us such exceptional films as Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter…and Spring and 3-Iron. Not recommended. (F. Swietek)
Moebius
RAM Releasing, 88 min., not rated, DVD: $24.95, Blu-ray: $29.95 Volume 30, Issue 1
Moebius
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