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It is quietly observant, with a detached eye for the telling moment, and the visual compositions are often exquisite.Full Review

Desson Thomson
Washington Post

Im recounts the painter's life in bold strokes rather than with the literalist's painstaking detail, and in the process tells us more about the mysteries of genius than a bushel full of quotidian fact.Full Review

Manohla Dargis
Los Angeles Times

Art history majors may write in with corrections. Meanwhile, I'm declaring that the masterly, big-canvas biographical drama Chi-hwa-seon: Painted Fire is about the Jackson Pollock of 19th-century Korea.Full Review

Lisa Schwarzbaum
Entertainment Weekly

A beautiful and exhilaratingly clear-eyed new film by the equally celebrated South Korean director Im Kwon-Taek.Full Review

Ella Taylor
L.A. Weekly

The mystery of the artistic process is left mysterious -- as it should be.Full Review

Peter Rainer
New York Magazine
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