April Snow
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Overview
After hearing his wife Su-jin was in a car accident, In-su heads to Samcheok, Gangwon-do where he meets Seo-young at the hospital. Seo-young’s husband, Kyong-ho, had been riding in the car with Su-jin when the accident had happened. While Su-jin and Kyong-ho remain unconscious from their injuries, In-su and Seo-young discover that their spouses had a ‘special relationship’. As they resent their spouses while hoping they wake up, the two find comfort in each other.
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Review
If One Fine Spring Day was standard introduction to the concept of love, April Snow is a more advanced, in-depth course on the same emotion. This film asks questions such as whether a man and woman who find out their spouses have been in an affair with each other can fall in love, and whether their love is ‘legitimate’ or yet another affair. April Snow is very clearly different from director Hur Jinho’s previous film, Christmas in August (1998) and One Fine Spring Day. Instead of his previous films which densely tied together normal and everyday moments with a contemplative eye, April Snow portrays the two people’s emotions in an extremely straightforward, and even in a slightly rough way. The frankly expressed emotions and relatively explicit love scenes express the inner worlds of the main characters, In-su and Seo-young, who have no choice when pushed by the strong tides of fate to find each other in a relationship. Perhaps because of this premise, the Korean public did not receive this film very well, but it was a smash hit in Japan thanks to Bae Yong-joon. As a turning point in his directing style, April Snow could be said to be the beginning of “Hur Jinho 2.0”. (MOON Seok)
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Credit
- DirectorHUR Jinho
- ProducerKANG Bong-rae
- ScreenplaySHIN Joon-ho, LEE Won-sik, SEO You-min, LEE il, HUR Jinho
- CinematographyLEE Mo-gae
- GafferOH Seung-chul
- Production DesignPARK Sang-hun
- MusicCHO Sungwoo
- EditorLEE Eun-soo
- SoundLIVE TONE
- CastBAE Yong-joon, SON Ye-jin
Film Source
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Director
HUR Jinho
Born in Jeonju, South Korea, 1963. His magnificent debut feature film Christmas in August (1998) became a success at the box office and among critics. He has directed One Fine Spring Day (2001), April Snow (2005), The Last Princess (2016), Forbidden Dream (2018). A Normal Family (2022), which has been invited to major international film festivals, awaits an upcoming release.
