By Lee Hyo-won
Staff Reporter
"My Love" is a montage film that weaves together four different love stories like the popular romantic comedy "Love Actually". If the British flick is like a mosaic of thoughts on love, this homegrown family drama is more like a hand-knit scarf ― fuzzy, warm and a bit tickly. Those who are in the mood for something sappy will love it, whereas humbugs will find it loathsomely sweet.
Set during summertime, "My Love" brings together characters from different parts of Seoul in time for a solar eclipse. Ju-won (
Choi Kang-hee) is an eccentric ― and slightly sadistic ― artist who takes pleasure in teasing her subway engineer boyfriend Se-jin (
Kam Woo-seong): At one point, a wardrobe malfunction has poor Se-jin standing, boxers-exposed, while giving Ju-won a piggyback in the subway. A few years later, Ju-won has left him, but he discovers that traces of their love remain.
For college student So-hyeon (...
More"My Love" attempts to mimic the famous romantic comedy formula set by "Love Actually" (2003), and the effort itself deserves some attention because the Christmas holiday season is just around the corner, and young Korean couples are keen to watch sweet, feel-good films with the snow falling.
"My Love" has some common grounds with "Love Actually". Obviously, as the title suggests, its target audiences as well as screening time are already set at around the year-end. Both films present multiple couples. But that's the end of the tenuous similarities, and everything else in "My Love" is dramatically inferior to those featured in "Love Actually".
In fact,
Lee Han, who has directed "My Love", has some credentials when it comes to romantic comedy in the domestic film market. He previously made romantic features such as "Lovers' Concerto" (2002) and "
Almost Love" (2006). But Lee is not Richard Curtis, a master of romantic comedy who made "Love Actually" and wrote "Four Weddings and a Funeral", "Notting Hill" and "Bridget Jones's Diary"....
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Staff Reporter
The winter holiday season is here, with decorative lights warming up the nippy evenings and carol tunes flowing out from record shops ― and of course, colorful movie posters adorning the faces of movie theaters. Here are several films to complete the year-end celebration.
"My Love"
Popular actors convene in this warm drama, which pieces together different love stories in the tradition of "Love Actually".
Subway engineer Se-jin (
Kam Woo-seong) is madly in love with his free-spirited and spontaneous girlfriend, Ju-won (...
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By Kim Tae-jong
Staff Reporter
New melodrama
Fly High (Saranghanikka Kwaenchana) is a story in which a young man falls in love with a young woman with a fatal disease and a limited time to live.
With its cliche storyline, the film fails to show new dimensions of love and it becomes a commonplace story that we have had enough of.
Directed by
Kwak Ji-gyoon and starring
Ji Hyeon-woo and
Lim Jeong-eun, the movie revolves around Min-hyuk (played by Ji), an 18-year-old high scho...
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