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Christmas In August | 
 enlarge | Director: Hur Jin-ho
Actors: Han Suk-kyu, Shim Eun-ha
Studio: Prism Leisure
Category: DVD
List Price: £5.99
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Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 20883
Format: Pal
Languages: Cantonese Chinese (Subtitled), English (Subtitled), Cantonese Chinese (Original Language)
Rating: Suitable for 12 years and over
Region: 0
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 110 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
EAN: 5060098350130
ASIN: B0009JOP0S
Theatrical Release Date: 1998
Release Date: March 19, 2007
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Quiet and touching love story December 18, 2006
gigidunnit (Reading, UK)
4 out of 6 found this review helpful
Movies about terminal illness are never going to be happy affairs. This is a gentle and quiet movie about a man who is dying, and though he falls in love with a girl who obviously loves him back, he decides not to have a relationship with her to spare her the grief of his death. Her hurt and bafflement at his disappearance, then, are deemed to be less than the pain she would suffer if they had become a couple.
That's pretty much it, but the movie is played out in such a touching and understated way that it never becomes maudlin or descends into histrionics. Both leads are superb, the music isn't too obviously a means of manipulating the audience into weeping, and the ending is done extremely well. It's the perfect feel bad rainy day movie.
People who enjoy this movie should also buy "Garden Of Heaven", another Korean movie on exactly the same subject. In "Garden", however, it is the girl who is dying, and the man who is too scared to have a relationship with her knowing he will be hurt in the end. Both movies are excellent and complement each other superbly -- showing, yet again, that South Korea is one of the most vibrant, interesting and varied cinemas in the world. It sometimes seems that Korean movies have all the emotional depth and sensitivity that are missing from equivalent Japanese movies (and completely lacking in those bludgeon-them-over-the-head Hollywood and American TV movies), and these are two excellent examples. Utterly recommended.
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