Sarang-eul nochida (2006)

User Rating:

5.6/10   

Director:

Chang-min Chu

Writer:

Chang-min Chu (writer)

Release Date:

26 January 2006 (South Korea)

Genre:

Romance

Cast

Hang-Seon Jang	...	Uncle
Ki-woo Lee	...	Sang-shik
Kyung-gu Sol	...	Woo-jae
Yun-ah Song	...	Yeon-soo

Also Known As:

Lost in Love (International: English title)

Runtime:

South Korea:115 min

Country:

South Korea

Language:

Korean

Colour:

Colour

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Certification:

South Korea:15

Filming Locations:

South Korea

Company:

Cinema Service

Animated view of love that's sliding through your hands

'Lost in love' is not a very good translation of the movie title. Literally, the title translates to 'Letting the love slip away'. I see that even critics give this movie a wide variance of ratings, and I think that one's view of the movie will depend on 2 things: 1) Your view of love and your experiences of love, and 2) Your acceptance of the 'animated' expressions. Characters are somewhat 'characterised' and the movie depends a lot in the viewer's own imagination rather than explicitly showing and telling all this and that. That would make the movie too emotional and childish. The movie is about indecisiveness so don't expect the movie itself to be decisive. This movie is not perfect. I see actors struggling to sync perfectly with the animatedness of the movie and the first part of the movie (before WooJae goes to the army) is restless, trying to establish the movie by packing in all the emotions. Overall, I don't think this movie provides a good example of how the senses of reality and animatedness could be matched, but there aren't really many movies - may be none - out there which has tried the combine things this way, and while the movie is not stylistically polished, I personally found it to be quite involving.