The Taste of Money

Name: The Taste of Money
Genre: Drama
Released: January 25, 2013
Duration: 115 min
Rating: 54

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IFC Films | Release Date: January 25, 2013 | Unrated

Summary: In a mansion on the outskirts of Seoul lives one of the richest families in the entire country. Yoon is the president of a powerful conglomerate, but it’s his wife Madame Baek that is really in control. Her personal secretary Young-jak, a handsome young man newly introduced to the world of power, deals with the families immoral – andIn a mansion on the outskirts of Seoul lives one of the richest families in the entire country. Yoon is the president of a powerful conglomerate, but it’s his wife Madame Baek that is really in control. Her personal secretary Young-jak, a handsome young man newly introduced to the world of power, deals with the families immoral – and frequently illegal – activities, but when scandal threatens the family, Young-jak is torn between his morality and a shortcut to a successful life. This companion piece to The Housemaid is another sexy and controversial erotic thriller from South Korean master Im Sang-soo. [IFC Films]… Expand

Director: Sang-soo Im

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: Unrated

Runtime: 115 min

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The Playlist Drew Taylor

Jan 25, 2013

A gloriously decadent, gorgeously photographed melodrama – a movie where people burst into tears and act very badly towards each other, all while wearing really fabulous clothes. Read full review

A.O. Scott

Jan 24, 2013

Even as The Taste of Money swerves toward a frantic climax and a sentimental denouement, it remains intriguing. It feeds an insatiable curiosity about how the other half - or, in current parlance, the 1 percent - lives, and what it shows us is gorgeous, grotesque and disconcertingly human. Read full review

Chris Packham

Jan 22, 2013

Is there such a thing as "tastefully smutty"? Director Im Sang-soo's moody and semi-Shakespearian The Taste of Money walks that line with some artfully lit humping and cross-generational seduction. Read full review

The Guardian Peter Bradshaw

Oct 24, 2013

It is a strange slo-mo farce, well directed, highly sexualised – shallow, but sleek. Read full review

Andrew Schenker

Jan 23, 2013

For all the revelations about the way the rich operate, there's little juicy pleasure to be had in the proceedings. Read full review

Maggie Lee

Jan 23, 2013

A trite and tangled potboiler that, despite its polemical pretensions, is just a glorified Korean domestic drama with classier couture and shapelier champagne flutes. Read full review

Keith Uhlich

Jan 25, 2013

Im could care less about these people as characters, presenting them as either obscenely hot or repellently decaying bundles of flesh. Read full review

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