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Before the Summer Passes Away

Dir. Sung Ji-hae
35mm/ color/ 78min/ Fiction/ South Korea

 
  * 11th Pusan International Film Festival (2006)
* 19th Tokyo International Film Festival (2006)
* 2007 Montreal World Film Festival, Competition (2007)
 
 

  About Movie

Anyone who has experienced love will remember many painful situations that have occurred due to entangled desires. Although experiencing a love that has vanished over time is painful, most love affairs become even more painful in cases where A is at the mercy of B and B is at the mercy of C and their desires can¨t come in tune. We become so disarmed in front of someone who we love but we become extremely cruel in front of someone who loves us more than we do. These situations repeat over and over again in our ordinary lives as we age and let time pass.
Before the Summer Passes Away starts at the moment fall approaches. The dialogue lets us know about what happened in the summer and the steamy moments they had in Paris. This movie captures the present state of these characters that have kept and cherished these memories although many incidents have already passed.

  Synopsis


So-yeon, who has been studying in Paris for several years, returns to Seoul for summer vacation. She is drawn to Min-hwan, a divorced man whom she met in Paris, but Min-hwan is non-committal and ambiguous about his feelings toward her. So-yeon meets a new guy. Hyun-jae, who is deeply into her, but So-yeon still waits for Min-hwan¨s call. She laboriously travels from Seoul to Busan, lugging around her luggage, just so that she can see Min-hwan.
After the vacation is over, So-yeon returns to Paris.

 

 

 

  Dir. Sung Ji-hae

Born in 1964, Sung Ji-hae studied filmmaking and film theory at Korean Academy of Film Arts and University Paris 8. She is currently a professor at Korean Academy of Film Arts, Korea. 
 

 
 

  CREDIT LIST

Cast


So-yeon          Kim Bo-kyung
Min-hwan        Lee Hyun-woo
Jae-hyun         Kwon Min

Staff


Presented by                       Music and Film Company
Executive Producer            Cho Sung-woo
Producer                              Hwang Yoon-jung
Written & Directed by         Sung Ji-hae
Cinematography                Je Chang-kyu
Lighting                                Kim Kye-joong
Editing                                  Lee eun-soo
Music                                    Choi Yong-rak
Recording                            Kim Byung-chul
 

                                                                                                       
 
 

 

    

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