The Isle

Part of the special series NACHTBLENDE

“That’s not the best way of using fishing rods if you ask me.”
— Avirup on Letterboxd

A quiet lake, floating cabins, and a fishhook that hurts like hell. SEOM – THE ISLAND (German distribution title) is a film that offers no mercy. Kim Ki-duk’s international breakthrough draws its disturbing power from the friction between dreamlike beauty and radical transgression. What begins as an idyllic retreat soon reveals itself as a surreal nightmare landscape where desire, violence, and loneliness become inseparably intertwined.