Park Chan-wook's English-language debut is an odd and interesting little film. Like the best of his work, it's beautiful, stylish and dream-like, with a constant tension and undercurrent of brutality. It also touches on some of his favorite themes, like family, instability, sensuality, puberty.

If you're not familiar with his other work, the film might be a bit lost in translation--there's a lot of unusual editing and framing choices that will be somewhat disorienting if you're not used to them.…