Review of The Lovers and the Despot (2016) by Joe Morgenstern for Wall Street Journal — 21 Sep 2016
You may harbor doubts as well, but the story on the whole appears to be true, and the integrity of the documentary suffers little, if at all, from its co-directors’ decision to illustrate some of the more extravagant aspects of the lovers’ journey with charmingly sleazy clips from commercial potboilers that Shin, who died in 2006, had made in South Korea.
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This review of The Lovers and the Despot (2016) was written by Joe Morgenstern and published by Wall Street Journal on 21 Sep 2016.
The Lovers and the Despot has generally received positive reviews.
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