[SECRET SUNSHINE screens Friday April 22nd at 6:30 p.m. and Saturday April 23rd at 1:30 p.m. at the Cleveland Museum of Art]
Review by Charles Cassady Jr.
*NOTE - this review contains spoilers. Read at your own risk.*
Given that Hollywood routinely scouts out Asian stuff these days for instant Americanized remakes, I wonder what the young studio intern who had to preview SECRET SUNSHINE put in the official report. "Umm, Cate Blanchett could be in it…Umm, it was weird there weren’t any ghosts this time…Umm, it kinda made my head hurt with thinking and stuff…Umm, got any meth?" The unadorned, plainly dealt narrative that still grabs you by the throat is a spiritual drama – or tragedy - sometimes reminiscent of modern Iranian cinema, despite the shift in geography and culture to South Korea.
