The film illuminates the transcendent grace inherent to one woman’s crippling dependence on born-again identities.
All season long, two prominent Oscar players have straddled the uncomfortable line between aligning with the supporting and leading categories.
It stretches beyond its handsome Hitchcockian pedigree to a world of blowzy Shakespearian intrigue.
The film is indeed a kind of secret sunshine in its first act, offering some quiet, embracing, jaunty realism.
The film Secret Sunshine differs from its predecessors by burying its fomenting despair within a more mundane narrative.
Lee Je-yong’s film has very little to say about a culture war and a battle of the sexes.