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The film opened to very strong commercial and critical reception and won Best Picture at the 2004 Fantasporto Film Festival.[4] It is the highest-grossing South Korean horror film and the first South Korean picture to be screened in American theatres.[5] An English-language remake titled The Uninvited was released in 2009 to mixed reviews.

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A teenage girl, Su-mi, is being treated for shock and psychosis in a mental institution. Soon after, she is returning home to her family's secluded estate in the countryside with her father and younger sister Su-yeon, whom she is protective of. The sisters have a cold reunion with their stepmother, Eun-joo, who constantly requires medication. Eun-joo also has a strained relationship with her husband, both of them enduring a sexless marriage.

Flashbacks reveal the day that led Su-mi to be institutionalized. While her terminally ill mother was still alive, her father engaged in an adulterous affair with Eun-joo, when she was still their in-home nurse. This upsets the sisters and drives their mother to hang herself in the wardrobe of Su-yeon's bedroom. Su-yeon attempts to revive her but the wardrobe collapses on top of her. Eun-joo sees Su-yeon thrashing and suffocating and at the last minute, decides to save Su-yeon. However, Su-mi arrives and criticises Eun-joo for interfering with her family. Angry at Su-mi's criticisms, Eun-joo leaves Su-yeon to die and tells Su-mi that she'll "regret this moment." Su-mi leaves the house, unaware of both her sister and her mother's fate.

In the original Korean folktale, the sisters' names are Janghwa and Hongryeon (Rose Flower and Red Lotus). In the film, they are Su-mi and Su-yeon (though the names still hold the meaning, Rose and Lotus).

The film was released on DVD on March 29, 2005 by Palisades Tartan. The film was originally announced for a Blu-ray release for October 22, 2013 by Tartan but the disc was never released as the company ceased operations. The DVD is now out of print. The film eventually received a region-free Blu-ray in Korea on October 14, 2013. Though the disc also offers English subtitles, the extras are all in Korean.[7][8][9]

A Tale of Two Sisters garnered very positive reviews. Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reports an approval rating of 86% based on 63 reviews, with an average rating of 7.1/10. The site's critics' consensus reads: "Restrained but disturbing, A Tale of Two Sisters is a creepily effective, if at times confusing, horror movie."[10] Meanwhile, Metacritic scored the film 65 out of 100, meaning "generally favorable reviews" from 19 critics.[11]

DreamWorks announced the two lead actresses on 28 June, with Emily Browning as Anna Ivers (Su-mi) and Arielle Kebbel as Alex Ivers (Su-yeon). Although originally titled A Tale of Two Sisters like the original film, it was later renamed as The Uninvited.[citation needed]

As the film progresses things appear to begin to slot into place only to be dislodged again as the story takes its twisting path leading to its ultimatum which although not particularly dramatic still rounds things off nicely with plenty of scope for questions. The sisters, Su-jeong and Su-mi play their parts perfectly and the spectrum of emotions they experience are totally convincing. Their portrayal of mental turmoil and desperation is particularly haunting and not to be forgotten in a hurry.

In the end it is suggested she becomes High Queen, replacing Salma Hayek as high ruler of the various Kingdoms. And to commemorate, a tightrope walker performs at her coronation. I will say more on this later, as I believe this final image of the film is the succinct visual representation of all that came before. The tightrope walker represents the lives of these people, who at any moment will be forced by their desires to topple to their deaths.

This story also upset me the most because of the horror film slaughter of the circus family who rescues the princess. And THIS is the main change to this story from the book. The rest of the story is almost identical to the book, minus the human emotion element. In the book, the people who rescue the princess each have a special talent, and as the Ogre pursues them, one causes a forest to spring forth to block him, but the obstacle is destroyed, so the next causes a river to spring up, etc. This happens seven times until the ogre is scaling a tower and the final son shoots him in the eye, killing the monster. The family is then rewarded for the rescue of the princess and they attend her wedding to a new prince.

The sisters then prepare for the sexual encounter. The younger one pastes the wrinkly folds of the elder one together until her form resembles that of a young woman. The old woman goes to the castle and crawls into bed where the Prince has his way with her. But he suspects something is off, and while she sleeps he brings a light to her face and discovers she is old. He is so outraged that he has her thrown from the castle window in the bedsheets.

The story continues when it joins up in the coronation of the Princess from the Flea tale. At the coronation the youthful sister, along with her Prince Husband, discovers the effects of the spell fading, as she begins to return to her old self in front of the crowd. She rushes from the palace, never to be seen again.

I really appreciate your breakdown of book vs. film! I watched Tale of Tales this weekend, and I, too, was disturbed by the imagerym events and effects. But I think I agree with you on all points, you put it very succinctly! Thank you!

Both the tone and story in A Tale of Three Sisters somehow won't put all its elements in perfect sync. Magical realism is one of them, and the one frequently invoked; somresaults are performed by a female village inhabitant, usually as interludes to the story, and Nurhan herself will take dust out of the stone house walls, and eat it as a remedy for her own worries. This seems to be at odds with the very palpable psychological realism and the feud which erupts between the three sisters (who can become the best besleme). A Tale of Three Sisters always simmers, but sometimes erupts without warning -becoming more tragic before finally lead to abandonment and a silent evocation of the past. But even though it won't always hold aligned both its chiaroscuro sensitivities and a larger character drama vista, every bit of the film matters for its sincere effort to create an ensemble out of snippets of distinct character behaviors.

Music and sound design offer a much-needed relief to the characters' palpable angst, while the three sisters themselves still remain closeted inside a patriarchal society (with its own internal class divisions between men as well). A Tale of Three Sisters won't glorify misery for its own sake, and it really wants to take a stand against fake dreams and desires. While it does not exactly achieve that feat, its take on trapped personal relations and expectations is arresting.

Me and my friends have been on a binge for Korean films lately. We watched The Wailing, A Bittersweet Life, and A Tale Of Two Sisters recently. I remembered A Tale Of Two Sisters was one of the films Jordan Peele wanted his cast to watch before filming US so we definitely wanted to check it out.

Without spoiling, Su-Mi finally reunites with her sister, Su-Yeon, after being institutionalized. Their father has remarried and of course the two sisters do not like their new step mother. Terrifying things start to unfold in their home and that's about all I will say.

Before watching the film, my friend, who is not a big horror fan whatsoever, kept repeating "I don't think I'm going to like this movie." After the film he said "I don't say a lot of films are masterpieces but that was a masterpiece."

A Tale of Two Sisters is the story of Su-mi and Su-yeon, two young siblings who return to their countryside home having spent time in a mental institution being treated for psychosis. Despite the idyllic setting, the sisters repeatedly clash with stepmother Heo Eun-joo, while their father comes across as aloof and disconnected. Worse yet, a series of mysterious and nightmarish incidents inside the house rattle the sisters, and as relationships become strained a series of shocking revelations point towards a dark and unexpected conclusion.

Director Kim Jee-woon (A Bittersweet Life, I Saw The Devil) made his international reputation with this richly conceived, stylishly shot, and genuinely scary chiller, one of the key films of the Korean New Wave.

Haunting and heartbreaking in equal measure, A Tale of Two Sisters' devastating mix of style, scares and emotive storytelling blurred the boundaries between genres as few other horror films had done before and had a profound influence on a new generation of filmmakers.

And to make matters worse, their lovely country home soon grows less and less inviting. Both sisters begin having strange visions and hearing strange noises, and the constant friction with their stepmother, who grows increasingly abusive, begins pushing things to its boiling point.

This compelling documentary reveals life behind the cloistered walls of a 150-year-old monastery, as it follows the twelve elderly nuns preparing to face the outside world for the first time in their adult lives. Breaking Silence: The Story of the Sisters at Desales Heights examines the effects on the members of this unusual community as they respond to pressures from the world around them. A rare and intimate insight into a way of life that may soon be gone forever, the film raises important questions about the changing role of women in society and what happens to those whose roles are no longer valued.

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