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Christmas in August (Palwolui Christmas) (1998)

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The story of Jung-won, whose life is unremarkable except that he is dying.

Unrated, 1 hr. 37 min.

Drama

Directed By: Hur Jin-ho , Jin-ho Hur

Written By: Jin-ho Hur

On DVD: Aug 23, 2005

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Unfortunately, the film's cloying score trickles through scenes like sap . . . works best when circling quietly around its characters and attuned to the dying strains of faded romance.

March 16, 2006 Comment

Brian Gibson

Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Canada)

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This film was amazingly heart shaking, and showed very sad but warm view toward life in Korea. I thought we as foreigners would not understand this delicate feeling and under rate this quiet film as a boring one, But I was wrong.This was without a doubt, one of the most accomplished films for any director. The film was

July 17, 2009

Daisy Maduro

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A cheap idea for a film full of bad ideas. Director Jin-ho Hur explores love and death, and the birth and death of love, in his films but just because the concepts are highfalutin doesn't mean you can just throw on a violin track and make a meaningful movie. Stoicism in the face of death is good but here it's negated

January 12, 2009