Namgwa yeo
Directed by:
Yoon-gi LeeScreenplay:
Yoon-gi LeeComposer:
Jun-suk BangCast:
Do-youn Jeon, Yoo Gong, Byeong-eun Park, Mi-so Lee, Min-ji Park, Hye-ok Kim, Seon-kyeong Jeong, Kang-min No, Moo-je MinPlots(1)
The lif of middle aged fashion business manager Sang-min and architect Ki-hong has taken them from Seoul to the cold and and lonely Helsinki with the hope of find help to each other's children. The son of Sang-min sufferes from autims and Ki-hong's daughter is plagued by nervous problems. Not much help is given by their spouses - the ingnorant and conservative husband of Sang-min nor the high society born and ill-tempered wife of Ki-hong. On the face succesful, yet in their hearts lonely, the ways of Sang-min and Ki- hong cross for the first time by sending their siblings to a waldorf-school camp and unexpectedly something more than an instant friendship sparks between the strangers. But after a romantic night together due to a snow blocked road the dawn brings back the gray reality of everyday putting the feelings and family ties of the man and a woman to a test. (Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival)
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There is not much doubt about South Koreans having a quality cinematography, but in some cases, I am more impressed by the image quality and overall professionalism than by the storyline. And this happened to me with the film "A Man and a Woman", which is a good dramatic romance, but does not stand out fundamentally.
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I very rarely leave Korean films without a review, but I thought this might be one of those exceptions. Because this film is so terribly fragile and contradictory that it's not easy for me to comment on it in any meaningful way. The story passes slowly, and at first it's mostly a collection of beautiful, long shots of a landscape in which something new is created, something beautiful, kind of desperate, and innocently guilty. By the time the plot picks up and more of the lives of the man and woman are revealed to us, I stopped being sure what kind of ending I was actually hoping for. Or let's say a version was forming in my head, but... Anyway, it ended the way it ended, and I just accepted the ending after a few minutes of silence. Oh, and Yoo Gong? He was pretty darn "watchable".
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