Yeon-ae-dam

As I stumbled upon the 2016 South Korean romantic drama titled "Yeon-Ae-Dam" (aka "Our Love Story") here in 2022, I had to sit down and watch it, solely on the account of it being an Asian movie that I hadn't already seen. Sure, I had never heard about this movie from writer and director Hyun-Ju Lee prior to watching.

Well, I will start out by saying that the acting performances in the movie were good, despite of the fact that the storyline was pretty weak. Especially Sang-Hee Lee (playing Yoon-Ju) stood put in the movie with her performance.

However, I found "Yeon-Ae-Dam" to be a slow paced movie. In fact, it was so slow paced that the narrative had no chance of ever taking flight. And it didn't really help much that the storyline itself was lacking interesting contents. The whole narrative felt flaccid and monotonous.

Sure, you get somewhat drawn in by the characters, because the character gallery in the movie is actually rather nice, and they had cast some good actresses and actors for the various roles. But the movie just felt weighed down and held back by a slow paced narrative that didn't offer much of any overly dramatic moments or enjoyable moments.

"Yeon-Ae-Dam" was sort of a disappointing movie experience, to say the least. Perhaps I just wasn't the right target audience for this.

My rating of "Yeon-Ae-Dam" lands on a generous three out of ten stars.

'Our love story' is far from boring, it's real. Both women fall in love while being partially closeted. I'm glad this movie was made.

Our love story is a great Korean film that was refreshing. The main character did a great job in her role. The movie is slow at first but if you give it a few more minutes it will get going. I really enjoyed it from the beginning. I wanted more character building, but it managed.

It has very realist moments in the movie which helped me engage in the film more

Still, the ending could have been fifteen minutes longer to show us how the plot played out. Many people would agree with that. At the same time I did see what the makers of the film where trying to go with the artistic direction and letting us put the pieces of the ending together. Great movie and I'm glad to had the chance to see it.

This was a great movie. It was real and endearing. True to its name, the love story of Jisoo and Yoonju takes us into their lives. I found myself so sucked in their emotions, unable to function normally for couple days. It's not common to have a Korean movie about lesbians, and I truly appreciate this chance to relate to the characters. Just the fact that it's a queer movie is fantastic, but Our Love Story is also extremely well-made and delightful.

This movie is realistic and a bit of dramatic but you must see it's a really good Korean film and the actress is awesome.