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And to a certain extent this is so with Karen Lam�¢ï¿½ï¿½s The Cabinet, which recounts a woman who, left alone while her boyfriend is on a business trip, begins to flick through a cabinet that contains the keepsakes and curios of his old girlfriends. Here, the relationship itself is what�¢ï¿½ï¿½s figuratively �¢ï¿½ï¿½haunted,�¢ï¿½ï¿½ by a morbid curiosity of what came before in a succession of ex-girlfriends, and a realization that happily-ever-afters can be an outside chance for coupledom. As the film ups the menace, creepy black and white visions intrude into Lizzie�¢ï¿½ï¿½s line of site, an abject, grisly payoff to the suspenseful stasis that the film goes to lengths to construct. More in tone with the creeping, subdued blend of horror/character regularly delivered by Korean contemporaries like Ji-woon Kim (A Tale of Two Sisters), The Cabinet delivers articulate frightfulness free from bloodflow, and lingers all the longer because of it. | | 
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