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3-Iron

In the quietness of empty houses, love finds a voice.

2004 · 1h 28m · R Crime, Drama, Romance
Directed by Kim Ki-duk

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Overview

A drifter lives in people's houses while they are away and repays them by doing chores for them. His life changes when he meets a beautiful woman who wants to escape her unhappy marriage.

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Critics on Rotten Tomatoes

Top critics, in their words

All reviews
87%
Tomatometer
Fresh

What is so engaging about the film is the way its director, Ki-duk Kim, manages to keep our interest intensely focused on the couple.

Richard Nilsen, Arizona Republic
Fresh

A movie meant to be taken on faith more than anything else. The more you can grant it, the greater the reward.

Eleanor Ringel Gillespie, Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Fresh

For the most part they achieve a delicate balancing act, mixing near-silent comedy with an old-fashioned sense of whimsy.

John Hartl, Seattle Times
Fresh

It's actually quite satisfying, in a weird, magical-realism sort of way that manages to disturb and confound as much as it appeases the romantic.

Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post
Fresh

Kim works with the barest of materials but returns the viewer's attention to the pure visual pleasure of filmmaking.

Philip Kennicott, Washington Post

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