Newly-hired gofer Young-Jak Joo becomes a key pawn in a powerful South Korean corporate-crime family obsessed with sex, money, and intrigue.
Combined with a misguided focus on secretary Young-Jak (Kim Kang-Woo) it feels like Im intended this as a moral fable. He should have played for laughs; material this blunt works best as satire.
Too dull to even work as kitsch.
Im Sangsoo seems too much in love with what he seeks to condemn for The Taste Of Money to have real bite.
The director seems uncertain whether he is making a slow-burning character drama or a satirical gangster movie about modern-day Seoul's answer to the Borgias.
It is a strange slo-mo farce, well directed, highly sexualised – shallow, but sleek.
Sex, death, greed, corruption: they're all here in handsomely mounted and highly polished cases. Taste the money – smell the glove.
General release. Check local listings for show times.
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