3-Iron (2004)

This was an absolutely amazing film and not at all what I expected from the little I knew about it in advance.  I have seen two of the Korean director Kim Ki-duk's earlier films "The Isle" and "Spring, Summer...", both unusual and beautifully filmed, but completely unlike this one.  The story concerns a young drifter who has a way of determining when houses or flats are likely to be unoccupied and who breaks in to live in these for a day or two, usually doing some small service like washing dirty laundry or mending broken clocks as an exchange.  At one mansion he is observed by a battered wife who eventually lets her presence be known.  When her abusive husband returns, our young hero deals with him with the golf club of the title and the lady leaves with him, joining him in his precarious way of life.  Eventually the police catch up with them -- he is thrown in gaol, she returns home.  But gaol is no prison for a free spirit and the young man keeps taunting his guards who threaten him with more and more and presumably fatal violence.  However his spirit returns to the places he has been before and ultimately to the home where he found true love.  Like Scorpion reviewed below, he has absolutely no dialogue and the wife speaks only once in the entire film, but so much is expressed between them in non-verbal ways.  The golf club motif returns, not only as a tool for violence by the husband as well, but as a skill which our hero thinks he can control, but which can backfire when least expected.   Very highly recommended.