Film: "Untold Scandal" - 2ND CHANCE!! March 31, 2004

This masterfully crafted costume drama is a luscious, sexy, and sly retelling of Les Liaisons Dangereuses, brilliantly transposed to Korea during the eighteenth-century Chosun dynasty. More a comedy of manners than a savage satire, director E J-yong?s adaptation concentrates on the hypocrisy of a society in which slander, seduction and gossip have a field day among the aristocrats. For this visually gifted filmmaker, a single barbed remark or sidelong glance conjures up a world ruled by artifice. Korean TV idol Bae Yong-jun makes his big screen debut as the philandering aristocrat, the stunning Lee Mi-Suk is charming and chilling as his royal cousin and arch manipulator, and Jeon Do-yeon elicits sympathy as the pure young widow who is the object of the scheming. South Korea, 2003. 124 min.

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