Um Homem e Uma Mulher

After watching this film, all I would say is to marry someone whom you love because if you are in love with someone after marriage, it will be very painful.

Korean movies like this one can really get to you if you let them. This one is peaceful and calm with nothing sensational going on, even if the blurb makes it sound just that. Just two people, both unhappily married and falling in love with each other. This subtle mood piece begins in wintry Finland but moves to Seoul in the second act. Do Yeon is the mother of an autistic boy sent to a specialist school. Going Yoo has a daughter with her own problems. They meet when he offers her a lift. No surprise in what happens next, but I was always interested in the story. Excellent Do-Yeon has real chemistry with her co-star and they share some passionate, tastefully shot sex scenes. Gong Yoo is tender and gentle as the man who eases her pain. This is a very low-key mood piece that I am happy to recommend, just don't expect any over-the top, Hollywood melodrama.

Jeon Do-yeon is a great actress who has played so many controversial female roles and played all of them so well. She did a great job in this movie too. The reason why my wife and I both decided to call a quit in the middle was because we didn't like the man played by Gong Yoo, a guy so goofy with an insatiable strong sex drive, a guy with an fatal attraction to a woman who has sex with him once in Finland. The guy acted like a stalker, followed her back to Seoul, always loitered around outside her Surreal But Nice fashion store. He didn't love her but only wanted to continue the sex relationship. Gong Yoo in this movie also acted poorly, he was so rigidly awkward and so goofy. There's no believable chemistry between him and Jeon Do-yeon. In addition to the uninteresting scenarios and his poor performance, his disgusting lowlife-like role seemingly became the main reason we decided to drop out of this movie earlier unexpectedly.

It is not too interesting at first since only describing steamy affair of a man and a woman on marriage. But nearly at the end of the film, the movie finds its very touching part. Gong Yoo and Jeon Di Yeon are perfectly play their role in this movie.

Definitely one of the best romantic movie to exist! I love the nuanced and realistic approach of the story. The acting is good. A must watch for people who love offbeat movies.