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Christmas in August

Christmas in August

7,7 /10 (94 Votes)
1998 KO 97 min

Overview

It's a sweltering summer, but Jung-won, a terminally ill, thirty-something photographer, is already in the winter of his life when he begins a tentative romance with a young traffic cop who doesn't know about his condition. Is their relationship doomed before it even begins?

Release date

24/01/1998

Votes

94

Popularity

1.2

Is love eternal?

Genres

Status

Released

Original title

8월의 크리스마스

Language

KO

Runtime

97 min

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badelf

2022-08-18

⭐ 6

A thirty-something photographer, Jung-Won (Han Suk-kyu), strikes up a potentially romantic relationship with a twenty-something parking enforcer. Unbeknownst to her, and he won't tell her, his time left to live is rather limited. The film is nice, and actually nicely paced and photographed. I didn't think there was enough meat on the bones though. We have good character from Han Suk-kyu. The other characters in the story a far too thin, leaving the whole effect rather lacking.

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