Genre: Drama, Romance
Starring: Byung-hun, Su-Ae, Oh Dal-su, Lee Se-eun, Jeong Seok-yong, Lee Hae-eun
Release year: 2006
Language: Korean
Subtitle: English
SYNOPSIS:
An assistant to a TV producer, eager to stay off his bad side, promises to convince her former professor, a famous but reclusive academic, to appear on their show, which helps locate long-lost persons. Who does grey-haired Professor Yun Suk-yung want to see agin more than anything? The answer to that question lies decades in the past.
1969 was a tumultuous year the world over, and South Korea was no exception. President Park Chung-Hee’s iron-fisted dictatorship has provoked a backlash among angry students, and trouble is brewing. Suk-yung and his comrades decide that Seoul is getting too tense, and embark on a summer retreat in the countryside, where they will help bring a rural village up to date with the modern world. But Suk-yung discovers pretty Suh Jung-in, the only local girl who shows no interest in the strikingly handsome student from a well-to-do family –- and that, of course, means he’s soon falling head over heels for her. Their bumpy courtship, however, is threatened by dark secrets that Jung-in hides about her family and their history in the village, secrets that will haunt the pair as the volatile political climate catches up with them.
RATING: ?/10
REVIEW:
"...The film felt slow and languished for the first 2/3rd of the film, simply focusing on a relationship that lacked any type of spark. There wasn’t anything particular interesting about Suk-Young and Jung-In’s relationship, beyond watching Byung-hun Lee unintentionally spoof the Rain Man. Fortunately, the movie did pick up big time when Suk-Young took Jung-In back to Seoul. They both got swept away by the police during a student demonstration and are given a Guantanamo Bay style interrogation by the Korean police. Suk-Young is forced into the very difficult decision of turning his back on Jung-In (because of her parent’s defection to North Korea) or ruin his chances for an academic career. These scenes were very good and both main actors were very good here. It’s just too bad the film didn’t start off with these scenes and show their initial courtship in a flashback segment of 10 minutes or so.
P.S. The soundtrack for this movie is awesome. Worth checking out way more than the movie."
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