Christmas in August 1998

Is Love Eternal?

7.789 / 10   76 vote(s)
Drama Romance

It's a sweltering summer, but Jung-won, a terminally ill, thirty-something photographer, is already in the winter of his life when he begins a tentative romance with a young traffic cop who doesn't know about his condition. Is their relationship doomed before it even begins?

Release Date 1998-01-24
Runtime 1h 37m
Directors Hur Jin-ho, Ryu Jang-ha, Park Heung-sik, You Yong-kil, Shin Dong-hwan, Kim Dong-ho
Producers Tcha Sung-jai, Cho Min-hwan, Yoon Sang-ho
Writers Oh Seung-uk, Hur Jin-ho, Shin Dong-hwan

A thirty-something photographer, Jung-Won (Han Suk-kyu), strikes up a potentially romantic relationship with a twenty-something parking enforcer. Unbeknownst to her, and he won't tell her, his time left to live is rather limited. The film is nice, and actually nicely paced and photographed. I didn't think there was enough meat on the bones though. We have good character from Han Suk-kyu. The other characters in the story a far too thin, leaving the whole effect rather lacking.

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