
University student Hae-Won (Jung Eun-Chae) wants to break up with Teacher Sung-Joon (Lee Sun-Kyun). They have had a secret relationship. Hae-Won meets her mother (Kim Ja-Ok), who is going to emigrate to Canada tomorrow. After meeting her mother, Hae-Won feels depressed and she decides to meet Sung-Joon for the first time in a long while. On that day, Hae-Won and Sung-Joon happen to meet students at a restaurant who study the same major and their relationship becomes known to ... (Full plot summary below)
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University student Hae-Won (Jung Eun-Chae) wants to break up with Teacher Sung-Joon (Lee Sun-Kyun). They have had a secret relationship. Hae-Won meets her mother (Kim Ja-Ok), who is going to emigrate to Canada tomorrow. After meeting her mother, Hae-Won feels depressed and she decides to meet Sung-Joon for the first time in a long while. On that day, Hae-Won and Sung-Joon happen to meet students at a restaurant who study the same major and their relationship becomes known to others. Hae-Won becomes more depressed. Sung-Joon then suggests they runaway to somewhere else.
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| Film.comCalum MarshOne of Hong's most linear films, it goes right for the pleasure centers. |
| Little White LiesVadim RizovHopefully this will be the film to make Hong Sang-soo make him a regular fixture in UK cinemas. |
| Financial TimesNigel AndrewsThe film is teasing, poignant, enigmatic. Think of Eric Rohmer, add sadness, set in Seoul. |
| London Evening StandardCharlotte O'SullivanHaewon is the kind of thing Eric Rohmer used to churn out in the Eighties and Nineties; a masterpiece so quiet you barely notice it's there. |
| Observer (UK)Mark KermodeHaewon emerges as a complex character in whose foolishly open company we would happily spend more time, her understated manner speaking volumes, her gestures gently telling their own story. |
| The ListAlan LaidlawNobody's Daughter Haewon is the Korean answer to Wong Kar Wai's Chunking Express, a moving statement of a country's people separated by the times. |
| Reverse ShotLeo GoldsmithFleeting though it may be, there is nonetheless a feeling of having completed the routines the film has set out and, perhaps, achieved a sort of understanding. |
| Spirituality and PracticeFrederic and Mary Ann BrussatA thought-provoking drama that depicts the baby steps a pretty young South Korean woman takes as she begins to deal with the breadth and depth of her loneliness. |
| Time OutTrevor JohnstonCouched in a lackadaisical storytelling style which masks an underlying fascination with the moral whys and wherefores of Korean society. |
| Total FilmKevin HarleyThe casual plotting leaves loose ends, but Hong's rhyming rhythms take up some of the slack. |