Synopsis
A young man released from prison visits the widow of the man he killed drunk-driving and becomes infatuated with his cerebral palsy-stricken daughter.
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Cast
- Sol Kyung-guHong Jong-du
- Moon So-riHan Gong-ju
- Ahn Nae-sangHong Jong-il
- Ryoo Seung-wanHong Jong-sae
- Son Byung-hoHan Sang-shik
- Kim Jin-gooMrs. Hong
- Chu Gwi-jeongJong-sae's Wife
- Yoon Ga-hyunHan Sang-sik's Wife
- Park Myung-shinWoman Neighbor
- Park Kyung-geunWoman Neighbor's Husband
Recommendations
- 90
Village Voice
Oasis is utterly beguiling because Lee, like many other percipient Asian filmmakers, is simply more attentive to his characters' emotional tumult than the audience's. - 90
L.A. Weekly
At once a romantic melodrama, a sharp social comedy and a fierce political commentary on Korean society's cruelty to social outcasts. It's also a triumph of artistic indirection: Not a single scene plays out the way you expect. This is a film that gives humanism back its good name. - 88
New York Daily News
Director Lee Chang-Dong has boldly crafted a challenge rarely found on film. But if you choose to meet it, you'll be rewarded with one of the most original, indelible romances in recent memory. - 80
Variety
An eloquent expression of both unorthodox romance and bitter disillusionment with the hypocritical institutions of family and society. - 80
The New York Times
The remarkable if overlong Korean film Oasis strips away much of the sentimentality and goody-two-shoes attitudes that the movies traditionally display toward disabled people. - 80
The A.V. Club
In a sense, Oasis is an unabashed tearjerker, but Lee keeps knocking the melodrama off-balance, making all the big emotional payoffs a little discomforting, because they're not that far removed from something really disturbing. - 75
New York Post
You'll have to look long and hard to find a performance as emotionally raw as that of Moon So-ri in the startling South Korean love story Oasis. - 70
Chicago Reader
Skating fearlessly on the edge of tastelessness and sentimentality, Oasis is another strong, provocative film by Lee Chang-dong.
