Overview
A haunting exploration of love and identity that questions what it means to truly know someone.
Ember's analysis
- Pacing
- Measured
- Intensity
- Strong
- Complexity
- Layered
- Violence
- None
- haunting
- wry
- disturbing
- arthouse cinema night
- korean film marathon
What critics said
Critics broadly regard the film as a haunting, formally controlled romance about plastic surgery and identity that balances wry comedy with disturbing emotional intensity.
What sets it apart
May contain story progression spoilers
Seh-hee changes her face through plastic surgery while attempting to preserve and renew her relationship with Ji-woo.
Seh-hee's fear of being abandoned drives her disappearance and unseen intervention in Ji-woo's interactions with other women.
The new couple returns to the same coffee house, sculpture park, and photographic poses associated with Seh-hee and Ji-woo's earlier relationship.
The plastic-surgery premise and romantic repetitions generate the wryly comic yet disturbing register identified by the critical consensus.
Films like Time, and why
3-Iron
psychological relationship drama centered on obsession, identity, and destabilized romantic intimacy
The Handmaiden
korean auteur cinema combining romance, mystery, emotional alienation, and unsettling transformation
Mulholland Drive
surreal romantic mystery about unstable identity and fractured desire
Possession
disturbing romantic drama focused on bodily transformation, jealousy, and obsessive attachment
Movie Details
- Director
- Kim Ki-duk
- Release Date
- 2006-08-24
- Runtime
- 97 min
- Rating
- 6.9 / 10 (260)
Cast
- Sung Hyun-ah
- Ha Jung-woo
- Park Ji-yeon
- Kim Sung-min
- Kiki Sugino
- Seo Ji-seok
- Kong Jeong-hwan
- Jung Gyu-woon
- Kang Shin-chul
- Jeon Se-hyun
Where to watch in United States
- Streaming
- FlixFling
- Rent
- FlixFling
- Buy
- FlixFling
Streaming options come from TMDB and change over time.
Common questions
- What is Time about?
- A jealous lover remakes her face to save a relationship, only to find that reinventing desire cannot erase the self beneath it.
- What is Time like to watch?
- Ember's analysis rates the pacing of Time as measured, its intensity as strong and its storytelling as layered.
- Is Time violent?
- No — Ember's analysis finds no violence in Time.
- What did critics think of Time?
- Critics broadly regard the film as a haunting, formally controlled romance about plastic surgery and identity that balances wry comedy with disturbing emotional intensity.
- Which films are like Time?
- Films with a similar feel include 3-Iron, The Handmaiden, Mulholland Drive, and Possession.
- How long is Time?
- Time runs 97 minutes.
- Where can I watch Time?
- In United States, Time streams on FlixFling.
