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9 September 2005 (South Korea)
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Set years ago in the era of the Joseon Dynasty, the story follows a young police officer named Namsoon (Ha Ji-won) who...
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Beautfil cinematography sugar coating bland story
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(Credited cast)| Ji-won Ha | ... | Namsoon | |
| Sung-kee Ahn | ... | Detective Ahn | |
| Dong-won Kang | ... | Sad Eyes | |
| Young-chang Song | ... | Minister of Defence | |
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| Bo-yeon Kim | |||
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Duelist (International: English title)
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UK:108 min | UK:108 min (uncut) | Canada:111 min (Toronto International Film Festival)
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I just saw this at the Toronto Film Festival. I really looked forward to it, after watching the trailer. The cinematography was no doubt a visual feast, beautiful composition and choreography, a lot of the time it resembles a comic book, the mysterious "sad eyes" and the exaggerated Namsoon, but the entire film just feels like a big loop of artistic sequence, a bit of story, artistic sequence, etc etc. After a while, it seems that a lot of it are just there for eye candy, didn't really do much in terms of contributing to the story, eventually it just became tiresome and repetitive. I can't say it was bad at all, but just the cinematography wasn't engaging enough, it was a sharp contrast of gorgeous visuals and an insipid story.