Kang-ho Song, Ji-tae Yu, Hee-soon Park, Yoon Jae-Moon, Duek-mun Choi
A South Korean expedition is trekking across the Antarctic when they discover a journal left by a British team that was lost 80 years earlier. As they press onward, they begin to notice strange simila...( read more
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I'd seen Yim's most recent film, Hansel and Gretel, and was completely blown away by it. Antarctic Journal is the polar opposite of that film in many respects. Hansel and Gretel filled every shot with a vast palette of colors and fantastic detail. Antarctic Journal, though beauti...( read more)
This is just a bunch of parkas and snow covered goggles barking at one another. I guess I just don't like manly man pictures where manly men do manly stuff like climb mountains with other manly men and during the expedition we find out that one man's neglectful manliness caused h...( read more)
i really like Kang-ho Song and was hoping to really enjoy this film (I have a soft spot for films that take place in the snow as well), but despite great performances, this one left me cold. Not a terrible movie, but unfortunately nothing really happens and when it does, I found...( read more)
The movie has a very bizarre, disorienting feel that is really cool to experience as a viewer, but there's a lot of hokey crap thrown in that doesn't belong.
There are a lot of good, even great things about this movie, but in the end I think it fails.
spell-binding! i was immersed in the eeriness and the performances hit it home
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