The Stop Button
blogging by Andrew Wickliffe
Category: Directed by Kwak Jae-young
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Narratively, Windstruck falls apart in the last thirty-five minutes. Director Kwak’s screenplay stops and starts–not vignettes really, but definitely episodic. Leads Jun Ji-hyun and Jang Hyuk have their romantic courtship, which gets off to a rocky start as police officer Jun confuses Jang for a purse snatcher, set to sixties American rock and roll and…
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The most important action in My Sassy Girl takes place off screen–the film takes place over a few years (though the main action is over three and a half months), with listless Cha Tae-hyun home from compulsory national service and back in school and having no idea what to do with his life. Enter Jun…
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Well-made but predictable romantic melodrama has Son Ye-jin as a college student who finds her mom’s old love letters. Son also plays Mom in flashbacks. Good performances all around, but it just doesn’t work out. Writer-director Kwak can’t do the melodrama. DVD (R3).Continue reading →
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