Bomnaleun ganda
South Korea,
2001, 116 min
Shown in 2002
CREDITS
- dir
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Hur Jin-Ho
- prod
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Kim Sun-Ah
- scr
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Ryu Jang-Ha, Lee Sook-Youn, Shin Jun-Ho
- cam
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Kim Hyung-Koo
- editor
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Kim Hyun
- mus
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Cho Sung-Woo
- cast
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Yoo Ji-Tae, Lee Young-Ae, Baek Sung-Hee, Park In-Hwan, Shin Shin-Ae
- source
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Shochiku Co. Ltd., International Business Division, 4-1-1 Tsukiji, Togeki Bldg.12F, Chuo-Ku, Tokyo 104-8422, Japan. FAX: 81-3-5550-1654. EMAIL: ibd@shochiku.co.jp
- premiere
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U.S. Premiere
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COMMENTS
Hur Jin-Ho in person.
OTHER
A Korean In the Mood for Love, this cinematic torch song lingers over love—its beginnings, its promises and its crude, cruel fade—and the memories it leaves in its wake, in an atmosphere of heartbreak that would make Wong Kar-wai, Billie Holiday or the Smiths swoon. Two lonely people—sound engineer Sang-Woo and radio personality Eun-Su—meet in a bamboo forest, recording the echoes of winds and bells for Eun-Su’s new program. As time passes, a relationship begins. Seasons change; Sang-Woo appears more in love than ever, but Eun-Su has other things to think about, like her career, or that goateed DJ with the fast car. Soon Sang-Woo is neglecting work, calling Eun-Su continuously or merely standing outside her apartment building at 4:00am, setting forth a chain of casual deceptions, outright lies and complete embarrassments that director Hur Jin-Ho sketches with the sort of glee usually reserved for total masochists. Freezing every detail of love’s promise and lingering over every breath of its final death throes, One Fine Spring Day solidifies Hur’s standing as a master filmmaker concerned with tracking the elusiveness of emotions. Discovering a new beginning in the end of supposedly eternal things, it finds meaning in melancholy, and gives hope—like all the greatest torch songs—to romantic depressives everywhere.
—Jason Sanders
FACTOID #10
In 1960, Federico Fellini’s La Dolce Vita, which has inspired many women to jump into fountains, was pulled from the San Francisco International Film Festival’s program by the distributor and replaced with Roberto Rossellini’s Night over Rome.
