Il Mare
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- Movie: Il Mare
- Revised romanization: Siworae
- Hangul: 시월애
- Director: Hyun-seung Lee
- Writer: Eun-Jeong Kim, Ji-na Yeo
- Producer:
- Cinematographer Kyung-Pyo Hong
- Release Date: September 9, 2000
- Runtime: 105 min
- Language: Korean
- Country: South Korea
Plot
Sung-hyun, who just moved into ' Il mare ' receives a strange letter. The letter is from a young woman in the year 1999, two years from the present. Her predictions about the past are amazingly accurate. Her warning about a flurry of snow on a certain day in January of 1998 and the ensuing flu virus turns out to be true.
Eun-joo is convinced that her letter has traveled back in time to December of 1997 and starts writing regularly to her newfound pen pal. A professional voice actor, Eun-joo asks Sung-hyun to find her long lost cassette recorder at a train station. Sung-hyun goes to the train station and gets a glimpse of Eun-joo, who of course, has no idea who he is.
After he receives his father's last book from the future Sung-hyun belatedly realizes his father's love for him. He confesses his selfishness at his father's grave. Eun-joo's old flame returns from the United States. But he's found himself a new love and is planning to marry her. Heartbroken, her only hope is that Sung-hyun will stop her from letting Ji-hoon go in the first place. Faced with the prospect of losing Eun-joo whom he's grown to love, Sung-hyun decides to make the ultimate sacrifice by stopping her from sending her boyfriend away.
Eun-joo visits Sung-hyun's school and is shocked to find out he died two years ago in a car crash. She realizes too late that she is in love with him too. He died on his way to stop Eun-joo from letting her boyfriend leave to the U.S. Eun-joo races against time to Il mare to warn Sung-hyun.
Production Notes
The title of this film, “il mare” means the sea in Italian. In the film, “il mare” is the focal point of the story because it’s the seafront house where the two lovers reside in at two different times. It’s the site where Sung-hyun and Eun-joo fall in love... There is a silt-lined beach near Kang-wha Island where the climate and scenery are both out of the ordinary. Director Lee Hyun-seung calculated the angles where the sunset fell each day and managed to re-arrange the silt along the shore to build the set of“il mare”. At first, no one believed this feat could be accomplished. But the impossible was made possible and the shot of “il mare” as it rises out of the foggy shores will berecorded in Korean cinema history.
Cast
- Lee Jung-Jae - Han Sung-hyun
- Gianna Jun - Kim Eun-ju
- Mu-saeng Kim
- Jo Seung-Yeon
- Yun-jae Min
- Yun-Yeong Choe
- Nam Jeong-Hee
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Nalyah Says:
Jun 16 2009 11:46 am
Yes, yes I have to admit it- I love ‘love stories’ :D, hehe. This one is one of my fav ones. I was totally enchanted by the plot, music and performances (Lee Jeong-Jae and Jeon Ji-Hyeon were really amazing in this movie).
The American version, though enjoyable, seemed less plausible (if you can say that here^^) and I really enjoyed the ending more in ‘Il Mare’.